ED, CBI will also fight Uttar Pradesh polls: Akhilesh Yadav sneers at IT raids on close aides

Questioning the timing of the raids which come a few months ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls, Akhilesh Yadav said, "If they had the information earlier, then why the search agency chose this time, two months prior to polls. It shows that the ED and the CBI will also come to the state to fight the polls." 

New Delhi: Reacting to income tax raid at the premises of his close aide, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday (December 18) jeeringly said after IT, now Enforcement Directorate officers will also come. 

Questioning the timing of the raids which come a few months ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls, Yadav said, "If they had the information earlier, then why the search agency chose this time, two months prior to polls. It shows that the ED and the CBI will also come to the state to fight the polls." 

The SP chief further alleged that BJP is following Congress' footsteps with these raids. "Earlier, the Congress also used to intimidate people by misusing central agencies like the I-T, CBI and the ED," Yadav was quoted as saying by IANS.