Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday (01 May) alleged that BJP and the Election Commission have completely implemented the same process in West Bengal, which has been tried in Uttar Pradesh on a ‘test’ basis. He Lucknow He was talking to journalists during a press conference organized on the occasion of Buddha Purnima.
Responding to a question on Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee sitting outside the strongroom at the counting center for almost four hours at night, Yadav said, “This is the real problem, whom should we trust? You will remember that people were being stopped from voting by showing pistols. Voting was stopped on the strength of revolvers.”
Mamata Banerjee will win elections in Bengal- Akhilesh Yadav
He said, “I think that BJP and the Election Commission together have implemented the same entire process in West Bengal, which they did in Uttar Pradesh as an exercise or experiment.” The SP chief also claimed that a parallel system of central security forces has been created in West Bengal. However, he also said, “Despite this, Didi (Mamata Banerjee) will win the elections there and it will be a historic victory.”
BJP’s technology cannot be trusted- Akhilesh Yadav
On the other hand, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reached Sakhawat Memorial School in South Kolkata, which is the counting center of Bhawanipur assembly constituency. The strongroom of EVM is located in this counting centre. He expressed fear of voting irregularities and EVM tampering. On the Election Commission’s decision to introduce QR code based ID system on May 4 to strengthen the security of counting centres, Akhilesh Yadav said that the technology brought by BJP cannot be trusted.
According to officials, this QR code system will be implemented during the counting of votes in the assembly elections of West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry as well as by-elections on seven seats in five states and later it will be implemented in all Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.