Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday alleged that the BJP workers was trying to loot booths in the state's Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency and detaining people from opposition parties in police stations. «In Mainpuri, BJP people are trying to loot booths. They are detaining opposition people in police stations,» Yadav said without giving details.
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Yadav, who cast his vote in Saifai (Etawah) for Mainpuri constituency where his wife and sitting MP Dimple Yadav is in the fray, also claimed that there is a power tussle going on within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and, therefore, its leaders give statements for «self-appeasement».
He also alleged rigging of votes at some places and said, «Informations are coming from some places that the government is using force. It is heard that officers have been deployed outside polling booths.»