Lucknow, Feb. 5 -- The Ayodhya Police responded to Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav's allegation that the police is checking the ID cards of voters in the Milkipur where by-polls are underway on Wednesday.

In a post on X, Ayodhya police said that the police were checking the ID of a booth agent of a candidate, not of voters.

"The above photo is of the booth agent's identity card, the person seen in the photo is a booth agent of a candidate which has been verified by seeing his identity card. Please do not make misleading tweets," they said.

Akhilesh Yadav claimed that the police were checking the ID cards. In a post on X, Yadav demanded action from the Election Commission to remove people involved in this.

"The Election Commission...