This will lead to situation far worse than colonial era: Akhilesh Yadav on SIR

Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav connected Friday (November 28, 2025) made a caller onslaught connected the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, claiming it was a "big conspiracy" against the radical of the state that could propulsion citizens into a authorities "worse than the assemblage era."

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State spokesperson Harishchandra Srivastava deed backmost astatine Mr. Yadav, saying that the SP main is making a malicious effort to dispersed fearfulness and disorder among the nationalist done his post.

Posting a 20-second video connected the SIR process connected his authoritative X grip connected Thursday (November 27, 2025) evening, Mr. Yadav appealed to each absorption parties, including allies of the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA), to "unite and exposure this mega-conspiracy of the BJP".

Attacking the rotation revision exercise, helium charged, "This is fraud with democracy. People indispensable enactment alert. Today, votes are being cut, time names volition beryllium removed from onshore records, ration cards, caste certificates, reservations, and aboriginal adjacent from slope accounts and lockers of the middle-class."

In a elaborate post, the SP main said, "This is simply a large conspiracy against the radical of this country, which volition pb to a concern acold worse than the assemblage era. This is the clip to aftermath up and support each azygous vote."

The erstwhile Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister warned that parties presently supporting the BJP would beryllium the "first to beryllium finished," and called connected citizens to "drop everything and halt the fraud taking spot nether SIR."

Accusing the BJP, its allies, the State government, and "some corrupt officials successful the Election Commission" of attempting to instrumentality implicit the full electoral system, Mr. Yadav said, "Let america unite to prevention the state from the unfastened loot by BJP leaders and their allies, and to prevention our individuality represented done our vote. Otherwise, time they volition state themselves arsenic outsiders."

Later, Mr. Srivastava deed backmost astatine Mr. Yadav, saying that the SP main is making a malicious effort to dispersed fearfulness and disorder among the nationalist done his post, but helium volition not succeed.

"This is Digital India, the nationalist knows the truth, and they cannot beryllium misled. The ambiance created by the absorption parties regarding reservations during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections is nary longer imaginable due to the fact that the nationalist has understood the truth, determination is nary information successful the allegations of the absorption parties," the BJP State spokesperson said.

He further noted that for the SIR exercise, the Chief Electoral Officers of the States person called a gathering of each the Opposition parties and appealed to them to name Booth Level Agents (BLAs) of their respective parties, to guarantee that each governmental parties tin entree the names of individuals registered astatine the booth level successful the elector database done SIR, eliminating immoderate opportunities to kick astir names being deleted from the SIR.

As a result, helium asserted, the Opposition parties' attempts to mislead the nationalist volition person nary impact.

Meanwhile, the SIR workout is underway successful 9 states and 3 Union territories.

The Election Commission (EC) said its booth-level officers (BLOs) person fanned retired to manus implicit semi-filled enumeration forms to electors and volition besides assistance them capable the required document.