LS Polls: Akhilesh Yadav Says Public Insulted In Surat, Demands Restart Of Election Process

In a post on X, Yadav called on the Election Commission (E🧸C) and the Supreme Court to🤡 take suo moto cognisance of the matter.

"The public has been insulted in Surat. They were not ev𒁃en allowed to cast their votes. We have been saying that the BJP will snatch the right to vote. See, that is what has happened," the SP ch𒀰ief said in his post in Hindi.

"This is also the murder of theไ Constitut🌠ion because the people who win through such rigging are not the elected representatives of the public," he said.

The BJP 🔯is "defying" the EC and the pollꦑ panel should take action, he added.

The BJP on Monday won its first seat in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls as its Surat nominee Mukesh Dalal was elected unopposed after the nomination of Congress candidate Nilesh Kumbhan🦩i was re♕jected and others withdrew from the fray.

Those who withdrew their nominati💙ons were four Independents, BSP's Pyarelal Bharti and three candidates from smaller p🔜arties.

Yadav further said that the election process in Sur꧑at should be started afresh.

"Like the Chandigarh mayoral polls, we once again appeal to the Supreme Court and the Election Commission to take suo motu cognisance of what happened in Surat, cancel the election and give the harshest punishment to all conspirators𝔉. The election process should be sta🍸rted afresh in Surat," he said.

In February, the Supreme Court set aside the result of the January 30 Chandigarh mayoral polls and instead declared the AAP-Congress alliance candidate Kuldeep Kumar as th🌟e mayor, saying the returning officer put marks on eight ballots cast in Kumar's favour to create a ground for treating them as invalid.