Lucknow: Pointing fingers at chief minister Yogi Adityanath for ‘misusing’ govt machinery to reach out to the electoral college which will vote for 11 MLC (Teachers and Graduate) seats, the Samajwadi Party has submitted a memorandum to the chief election officer (CEO) Uttar Pradesh demanding videography of his events and the issuance of notices to him for violation of model code of conduct wherever necessary.
The memorandum also demanded that names and mobile numbers of govt engineers and other public servants roped in for the election-related work must be made public and names of voters be pasted outside every polling centre so that it can be verified if the bonafide voters were exercising their franchise. These events must be videographed and notices issued for violation of the model code of conduct and further action initiated accordingly,” the memorandum, signed by state president Shyam Lal Pal, stated.
In its memorandum, the SP also stated that deputy chief ministers Brijesh Pathak and Keshav Prasad Maurya were also camping in Allahabad-Jhansi seat region and Lucknow seat area respectively to influence voters to “exert pressure on district magistrates of the region to benefit the BJP in the polls”. “The events being chaired by the CM are a violation of model code of conduct. Govt machinery is being used to reach out to the electoral college.
The memorandum came on a day when the CM addressed an event in Varanasi to mobilise voters for the MLC polls on Wednesday. On Thursday, the CM is slated to address a similar event in Prayagraj.