Lucknow, Feb. 5 -- Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday accused the Election Commission of acting as an extension of the BJP, claiming that the electoral process is being manipulated.
"Has the Election Commission given its work to the BJP on contract, or has the BJP hired the Election Commission on a contract basis?" Akhilesh asked on his social media account. He suggested that in the administrative thesaurus, "Election Commission should be added as a synonym for BJP," he wrote.
He claimed that the situation has become such that there seems to be no difference between the Election Commission of India and the BJP.
He sarcastically remarked that it seems as if the Election Commission's flag should be hoisted on the houses o...