India, Aug. 21 -- LUCKNOW Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday accused the BJP and election authorities of trying to manipulate records, saying that out of 18,000 affidavits submitted by his party, only 14 had received what he called "half-baked and baseless" clarifications. He slammed the Election Commission of India (ECI) for terming his complaint about irregularities in electoral rolls in various districts of UP as "baseless and misleading".

The SP chief has been targeting the EDI over alleged voter list anomalies in the 2022 UP Assembly polls, claiming the poll body and DMs are now in a confrontation over the issue. DMs of Jaunpur, Kasganj and Barabanki have publicly refuted his charges of wrongful deletion of voters'...