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]]>Speaking to reporters during his visit to Hyderabad, Yadav claimed that more than three crore voters in Uttar Pradesh are at risk of being struck off the rolls. He said the Election Commission should be working to increase voter participation rather than overseeing what he described as “large-scale deletions that threaten the very foundation of democracy.”
“If votes are removed in areas where the BJP has lost, it is nothing less than a conspiracy against democracy,” Yadav said. “This is not the purpose of SIR. This is NRC brought in quietly. They could not implement NRC openly, so they have introduced it under another name.”
Drawing parallels with the National Register of Citizens, Yadav argued that the documentation being sought during the SIR mirrors the same requirements associated with NRC. “If NRC were to be implemented, what documents would people need to show? The same documents are being demanded now,” he alleged.
Yadav also compared the SIR exercise to past policy decisions that, according to him, caused widespread hardship. “People are being troubled again, just like during demonetisation, the COVID period, and the rollout of GST,” he said.
During his Hyderabad visit, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister attended the Vision India – AI Summit, underscoring the growing influence of artificial intelligence across sectors such as agriculture and healthcare. He said the initiative was aimed at shaping a roadmap for “Neo-India” driven by foresight rather than polarisation. “Politics should be about vision, not division,” he remarked.
On the ongoing Parliament Winter Session, Yadav took a sharp dig at the ruling dispensation, saying the most striking feature was that “some people who never sang Vande Mataram are suddenly eager to do so.”
Yadav also held meetings with Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and senior leaders of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, including working president K T Rama Rao. According to an official release, Reddy briefed him on the state government’s development and welfare initiatives.
The Samajwadi Party chief praised the Telangana government’s decision to recognise ‘Sadar’, a festival celebrated by the Yadav community in Hyderabad, as a state festival, calling it a gesture of social inclusion and cultural respect
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]]>West Bengal recorded its fourth booth level officer death, since the revision began on November 4, prompting a Trinamool Congress delegation to meet the full bench of the Election Commission in Delhi and accuse the poll body chief of carrying moral responsibility for the deaths.
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav also attacked the ongoing revision process, calling it a large scale conspiracy against citizens that he claimed could create a situation more oppressive than the colonial period.
The special intensive revision is currently underway in twelve states and Union territories.
In Gujarat’s Mehsana district, Dinesh Raval, a 50 year old teacher, at a government primary school in Sudasana village, passed away from a heart attack at his home between Thursday night and Friday morning according to Sadasana police sub inspector Udaysinh Zala.
Opposition leaders and teachers’ unions linked his death to heavy workload and inadequate support for booth level officers, though police denied any connection between his duties and the incident
Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi stated that booth level officers are under intense pressure to complete assigned tasks within strict deadlines, while Gujarat State Primary Teacher Association president Digvijaysinh Jadeja said he had heard from other teachers that Raval had been experiencing stress due to his BLO responsibilities.
In West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, Zakir Hossain, a teacher in a state run primary school deployed as a booth level officer, collapsed on Thursday after reporting severe chest pain and was taken to a local hospital where he died later that night according to his family.
Relatives said Hossain had been struggling to balance his booth level duties with regular teaching, and claimed that his school did not relieve him from classroom responsibilities despite multiple requests, forcing him to juggle both roles.
Leaders of the Trinamool Congress, including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, have accused the Election Commission of assigning an unreasonable and poorly planned workload to booth level officers.
The Bharatiya Janata Party rejected the allegations and argued that any stress faced by booth level officers stemmed from pressure exerted by the ruling Trinamool Congress rather than the Election Commission.
A ten member TMC delegation led by Rajya Sabha MP Derek O Brien met EC officials in Delhi and raised five questions regarding the deaths and the workload, but said they received no direct answers from Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Mahua Moitra said the delegation submitted a list of forty individuals whose deaths they claim are linked to the revision process, but the Commission dismissed the list as unverified allegations.
Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav posted a video on social media urging opposition parties, including NDA allies, to unite and expose what he described as a large scale plan by the BJP, warning that tampering with voter rolls could eventually lead to removal of names from land records, ration cards, caste certificates, social welfare lists, and even bank accounts.
BJP spokesperson Harishchandra Srivastava rejected Yadav’s comments and accused him of attempting to create fear and confusion among citizens.
Meanwhile, the Election Commission announced that Lakshadweep has become the first Union territory to complete full distribution and digitisation of enumeration forms under the special intensive revision.
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He doused himself with combustible substance and lit himself on fire, as per authorities. Civilian clothes officers on the scene arrived quickly and extinguished the flames.
SHO of Hazratganj police station Narendra Singh was carried to the civic hospital in a police van, according to Shyam Babu Shukla. He suffered minor burns to his neck, face, and forearms, but he is unharmed.
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The alliance between the two factions would most likely result in a social coalition consisting of the major peasant community, the Jats, and a sizable Muslim population. For the first time since the communal riots in Muzaffarnagar in 2013, a series of farmer maha panchayat held over the last several months brought both communities together on a shared platform.
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The Samajwadi Party failed to retain power in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, winning only 47 seats. The BJP won 312 seats in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, and Yogi Adityanath was appointed as the state’s Chief Minister.
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]]>Questions were also raised concerning the Congress’s rebirth, which some politicians present claimed could only happen if the party was “liberated from the Gandhis’ leadership’s clutches,” according to insiders. The Gandhis were not in attendance during the event.
Other politicians pressing for reform in the Congress, such as P Chidambaram, Shashi Tharoor, and Anand Sharma, were among those invited. All three are among the party’s leaders who have raised concerns about the party’s future.
Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party, Omar Abdullah of the National Conference, Sanjay Raut of the Shiv Sena, Lalu Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, Derek O’Brien of the Trinamool Congress, and Sharad Pawar of the Nationalist Congress Party were among the opposition leaders present. The crowd also wished Akhilesh Yadav well in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
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]]>The party has started this by giving the ticket of Ward Panchayat member from ward number 18 to Sandhya Yadav, outgoing vice-president of the district panchayat in Mainpuri.
Sandhya Yadav is the niece of Mulayam Singh, the founder president of Samajwadi Party, the daughter of his elder brother Abhairam Yadav and sister of Dharmendra Yadav, a former SP MP from Badaun.
Sandhya Yadav had won the election of the District Panchayat President on the Samajwadi Party ticket in the year 2015, but this time she has joined the BJP.
Sandhya Yadav’s husband Anujesh Pratap Yadav says that despite being a relative of the top leadership, the party did not honor him, so first he and now his wife have joined the BJP.
Anujesh Pratap Yadav says, “There is nothing new in this. I joined the BJP in the year 2017 itself and while I am here, and my wife does not mean to be in any other party. When the motion of no confidence against us If brought, it was the BJP that helped us and increased our respect. I was in the Samajwadi Party on my own free will, nobody was a slave. “
Sandhya Yadav became the district panchayat president of Mainpuri in 2015. In July 2017, the Samajwadi Party had brought a motion of no confidence against her, but due to manipulation, the no-confidence motion could not be passed.
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