New Delhi/Lucknow, Aug. 19 -- : Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Monday distributed copies of affidavits he claimed to have filed with the Election Commission (ECI), alleging large-scale voter deletions and irregularities in Uttar Pradesh during the 2022 assembly elections.

He also attacked the ECI for its alleged inaction over complaints during elections in Uttar Pradesh since 2019.

He further alleged that in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and 2017 UP assembly polls, the EC removed officers on the complaints by Bharatiya Janata Party. He also claimed there was a robbery of votes in the Uttar Pradesh assembly by-elections held last year.

Speaking to reporters in the Parliament complex, Yadav said nearly 18,000 affidavits ...