The Hindu : Govt. tampering with voters' list, says Mulayam

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Govt. tampering with voters' list, says Mulayam

By Our Special Correspondent

LUCKNOW JUNE 30. The Samajwadi Party leader, Mulayam Singh Yadav, today accused the Uttar Pradesh Government of "hatching a conspiracy to tamper" with the voters' lists being prepared for the next elections.

He told newspersons that he planned to urge the Election Commission to reject the lists and prepare fresh ones.

Mr. Yadav gave several instances of missing names and other aberrations and said these were not the result of any mistake on the part of election officials but a "planned move of the ruling coalition to rig the elections".

He alleged that while names of a large number of party supporters were missing, bogus names had been included to "help" the Bahujan Samaj Party and the BJP candidates.

In one case, a husband's name was found in one part of the list and the wife's in another. There was haphazard mixing of names, with voters belonging to one place being included in a list of another distant locality.

He said `tampering' was rampant in cities such as Agra, Kanpur and Lucknow and divisional towns. In Lucknow, names had been "duplicated in thousands" to allow bogus voting on behalf of unsuspecting voters.

Nearly 150 localities with a majority of his party supporters were the worst affected.

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