Lucknow, Feb. 9 -- Visibly perturbed over the crushing defeat of the party candidate in Milkipur assembly bypoll, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party of "misusing" the electoral machinery to win elections.
"The true victory of PDA (Pichhda Dalit Alpsankhyak) in Ayodhya in the Lok Sabha elections is many times greater than their false victory in the Milkipur assembly and will always be so," he said.
In a post on X, Yadav also said, "The BJP cannot face the growing power of PDA on the basis of votes, that is why it tries to win by misusing the electoral machinery."
"The level of manipulation of officials required to carry out such electoral fraud may be possible in one assembly constit...