Lucknow, Jan. 11 -- The Samajwadi Party (SP) has provided its booth-level agents with a format for the FIR and asked them to simply fill in the names of those found involved in any discrepancy in the special intensive revision (SIR) process and lodge a proper FIR against them. SP national president Akhilesh Yadav has also alleged that BJP leaders were instructing booth level officers (BLOs) to manipulate the voter list in their favour.

Speaking at a press conference at the party headquarters in Lucknow on Saturday, Akhilesh Yadav said, "The BJP government is preparing to manipulate the voter list. BJP members want to create the voter list according to their own preferences. The BJP government is giving instructions to delete the votes of...