Lucknow: Charging the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) with massive rigging during the first two phases of the civic elections, senior Congress leader Ashok Yadav on Thursday demanded imposition of President's rule in Uttar Pradesh.
"The ruling party goons, with the help of the official machinery indulged in large scale booth capturing, bogus voting and terrorising electorate during the polling," Yadav, a former state minister, alleged.
Displaying a bundle of printed ballot papers, which he claimed had been found with the SP workers in Ferozabad during repolling at a booth, Yadav said free and fair polls were not possible under the present regime.
He accused state Election Commissioner S P Singh of working as an SP agent, saying Singh had turned a blind eye towards the complaints of rigging.
Stating that large-scale violence and rigging during the civic polls were "an indication of things to come", Yadav demanded that the Centre immediately dismiss the state government and the forthcoming assembly polls be held under the President's rule.
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