Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav fumed during the voting held on Wednesday to elect nine seats in the Uttar Pradesh assembly. In the middle of the vote, a political battle broke out over the burqa and the ID card. Videos of this type have continuously gone viral, in which police officers are seen checking the IDs of the Muslim community. The Samajwadi Party complained to the Election Commission accusing the police administration of preventing its voters from voting under pressure from the ruling party. Akhilesh Yadav launched a powerful attack on officials of the Uttar Pradesh government and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Akhilesh Yadav also warned the officials. Akhilesh Yadav looked very angry while holding the press conference. Meanwhile, when a journalist asked him a question, he became very angry. You became enraged calling the journalist illiterate and illiterate. However, based on his complaint, the Election Commission took action and suspended more than half a dozen police officials from Kanpur to Moradabad and Muzaffarnagar. On the other hand, the Bharatiya Janata Party has also complained about fake identity documents and the voting of women wearing burqas without guaranteeing their identity. But the real question is why did Akhilesh Yadav start losing his temper so quickly? Especially today, is there any frustration behind your behavior towards a journalist? Have you lost the by-election battle?
1- Can police officers check voter ID?
The Samajwadi Party complained that policemen were checking voters’ ID cards despite instructions from the Election Commission in many places, including Sisamau assembly constituency. A video purportedly from Sisamau also emerged in which police officers are seen checking voters’ identity documents and returning them, preventing them from casting their vote. After this video surfaced, the Election Commission suspended sub-inspectors Arun Kumar Singh and Rakesh Kumar Nadar with immediate effect.
The Election Commission has already given clear instructions that no police officer can check the identification of any person who comes to vote. According to the guidelines of the Electoral Commission, this right corresponds to the team of electoral personnel who are inside the polling station. Electoral party agents and candidates can verify voters. The duty of the police is to maintain law and order in the polling station. But police officials say no elections have been held in the entire state since then. Therefore, IDs had to be checked several times to prevent people from constituencies adjacent to the assembly from casting their votes. The Electoral Commission says that the police are currently unable to check the identity documents of those who go to vote. But in the name of law and order, the police have the right to check the identity of anyone. If there is a sudden crowd at the polling station, how will the police personnel identify who is an anti-social element and who has come to vote? Obviously ID will be verified for this. There is no doubt that the police misuse their powers. But there can be no disagreement that without police it is impossible to maintain law and order.
Journalist Parvez Ahmed, a political expert from UP, writes in You don’t belong to the ‘Kurmi’ community: why??? Is it possible in UP that the BJP wanted Yadav to vote? And if there is even a single video that is not Muslim, then post it? Don’t #Muslims become unconscious?
2- Look at the style of threatening agents and harassing journalists.
Akhilesh said on PC that I hope the Election Commission takes action against dishonest officials. Threatening the officials, they say that everyone will lose their jobs. PF, the pension will also go. You will lose respect in society. Their lives will be ruined if they are branded as dishonest. I have spoken to the Chief Election Commissioner. He has asked for a list of rogue agents. He said that in Meerapur Assembly I will give information about the officers who have snatched his ID card. Recalling his first election to the assembly, on the pretext of threatening an officer, he indirectly told all the officers that they would all be responsible. Akhilesh Yadav, who speaks for democracy in the entire PC, scolded a journalist, the fourth pillar of democracy, in such a way that many other journalists would not have been able to say anything. When a journalist tried to question him, he was declared a BJP agent. Calling him illiterate and illiterate, he started using abusive language. This is not the first time this has happened to Akhilesh Yadav. Now he is out of power, but very quickly he begins to teach journalists a lesson. They start asking about his caste.
He said they are losing, that’s why they don’t allow voting. The presidents themselves are casting their votes at many booths in Meerapur. The public is also defeating them, their own people are also defeating them. That is why the BJP is bent on dishonesty. Both Delhi and the MP are against them. They are moved because their throne trembles. We are collecting the names and designations of the police officers who are causing trouble. Their evidence is being fabricated, no one will be saved. The result of these elections will be in our favor, but tomorrow the court’s decision will be against them.
3- Akhilesh’s attitude indicates two things.
In fact, it has been seen in elections that the party that starts making accusations on voting day is considered to mean that it does not see the elections going in its favor. The same attitude of Akhilesh Yadav was also visible today in PC. In their byte released to the media today, both Akhilesh Yadav and Dimple Yadav expressed their displeasure over Muslims being prevented from voting. While people are wondering if Samajwadi Party’s core voters, Yadavs, were also detained. Aren’t Yadavs Samajwadi Party voters? In Uttar Pradesh, the votes of the Yadavs also go to the Bharatiya Janata Party, but no such videos have surfaced anywhere where the police are trying to arrest them. So how can we understand that the Samajwadi Party has been left behind in the by-elections? But to say this would be an exaggeration.
Another aspect of Akhilesh Yadav’s frequently testy behavior could be that he has been in the opposition for longer. They can no longer tolerate power distance. Still, as he tours the state, the convoy that accompanies him or the crowd of his followers that gathers to welcome him should make many of the country’s leaders feel ashamed. Be it the former CM of Uttar Pradesh or any other state or the party president, Akhilesh Yadav is not popular. Even in the BJP, while in power, a leader may compete with him in this regard, but if it is a former leader, such respect is rarely seen. Perhaps this is the reason for Akhilesh Yadav’s frustration.
