UP Block pramukh polls: Akhilesh Yadav accuses BJP for violence, says 'SP candidates were attacked, threatened'

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav accused BJP leaders and workers on Thursday (July 8) of indulging in anarchy and violence during the process of filing nominations for the election to the posts of chairpersons of Block polls and making a mockery of democracy. The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister claimed that Speaker Mata Prasad Pandey's car was damaged in Siddharthnagar district's Etwa block.

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav accused BJP leaders and workers on Thursday (July 8) of indulging in anarchy and violence during the process of filing nominations for the election to the posts of chairpersons of Block polls and making a mockery of democracy. The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister claimed that Speaker Mata Prasad Pandey's car was damaged in Siddharthnagar district's Etwa block. He also said the nomination papers of his party candidate in Hardoi's Sandi block were torn while in Sambhal, Basti Ka Gaur, Jhansi's Baragaon block, Sitapur's Kasmanda block, Kanpur's Bilhaur and Shivrajpur, Bulandshahr, Lalitpur, Unnao, Ghazipur, Gorakhpur, Mahrajganj's Siswa, Paratawal, Paniyara, Sadar, Deoria's Bhatni, Chitrakoot's Manikpur and Karvi, Etah's Marhra, BJP workers created hurdles in the nomination-filing process of the SP-backed candidates. "The ruling BJP has held the law and order of Uttar Pradesh hostage. The people belonging to the ruling party are openly throttling democracy and the police administration is watching this murder of democracy as mute spectators. The ruling partymen indulged in anarchy and violence during the nomination-filing process held on Thursday and made a mockery of democracy," he said in a release issued by the SP.