India, Aug. 18 -- Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Ram Gopal Yadav on Monday said that the Election Commission's statement that allegations of vote theft are baseless and given without affidavits is wrong.

Yadav made the remarks while addressing a press conference on the opposition's reply to a similar press conference by the apex poll body, where CEC Gyanesh Kumar called the allegations of vote theft "an insult to the constitution".

"The EC has repeatedly said that the allegations being made should be submitted in the form of an affidavit. I want to tell you, when Akhilesh Yadav said during the 2022 UP assembly election that a large number of SP supporters' votes had been cut, the Election Commission gave a notice. Affidavits of 18,000 vote...