Lucknow, Aug. 25 -- Responding to the Samajwadi Party's claim of giving 18,000 affidavits to the Election Commission, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer today said his office has received only scanned copies of the affidavits of merely 3919 voters.
The CEO has now sought that the affidavits be made available for conducting an investigation.
The state Chief Electoral Officer posted two tweets on the social media handle X during the day regarding the SP's claim of having sent 18,000 affidavits.
In his statement, the CEO said his office was yet to receive a single original copy of the affidavits so far, and demanded the same from the SP.
The CEO said instead of the affidavits of 18000 persons, till now only scanned copies of 3919 af...