Akhilesh Yadav flags voter roll revision, questions ECI credibility

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav addresses a press conference at the party office in Lucknow on Saturday (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

Akhilesh Yadav raises questions over the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls carried out in Uttar Pradesh (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

He says all political parties including booth level agents participated in the voter revision exercise without objection (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

The SP chief expresses concern after the draft voter list shows the exclusion of 2.89 crore voters from the rolls (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

He questions how BJP leaders could predict the number of voters to be removed even before the draft list was released (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

Akhilesh Yadav alleges discrepancies in voter data prepared by Booth Level Officers across Assembly and Panchayat elections (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

He points to differences between rural voter numbers and Assembly voter figures prepared by the same officials (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

Akhilesh Yadav says such developments raise serious concerns about transparency and the credibility of the Election Commission of India (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)