AKHILESH YADAV BACKS MAMATA’S CHARGE OF BACKDOOR NRC

New Delhi: Akhilesh Yadav said that if Mamata Banerjee was saying something about the BJP, then the opposition parties have to be alert.Akhilesh Yadav backs Mamata’s charge of ‘backdoor NRC’, says BJP can do anything

Mamata Banerjee had alleged that the ECI was acting like the BJP’s “stooge”, in the name of ‘special intensive revision of electoral rolls’.Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav expressed strong backing for West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s accusations against the Election Commission of India for trying to implement the NRC through the backdoor, saying that any concern raised by the Trinamool Congress chief about the Bharatiya Janata Party needs to be taken seriously.

Banerjee on Thursday lambasted the poll body for allegedly isolating voters born between July 1987 and December 2004, and seeking proof of their citizenship in the name of ‘special intensive revision of electoral rolls’. She alleged that the ECI was acting as “a stooge of the BJP”.

In reaction to the allegations levelled by the West Bengal CM, Yadav told reporters in Lucknow, “The BJP can do anything through the back door… If CM Mamata Banerjee says something about the BJP conspiring, then we have to be alert.”

Mamata Banerjee’s accusations on ECI

TMC chief Mamata Banerjee told reporters in Purba Medinipur district’s Digha area that she had called the press conference in a hurry to address the “matter of utmost concern”.

She told them that she had received two lengthy letters from the ECI. She said that while she has not gone through them in detail, an overview of the letters indicate that the “Commission is now seeking a declaration form from voters born between July 1, 1987, and December 2, 2004, which is Annexure D in one of the letters, where they will have to submit birth certificates of both parents as proof of citizenship”.