EC should hoist its flag on BJP members’ houses and turn them into polling booths: Akhilesh Yadav

Once again targeting the Election Commission and the BJP, Samajwadi Party (SP) national president Akhilesh Yadav said on Thursday that the situation has become such that there seems to be no difference between the two.

He sarcastically remarked that it now seems as if the Election Commission’s flag should be hoisted on the houses of BJP members, making them presiding officers and turning their houses into polling booths.

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Posting on his social media account, Akhilesh Yadav asked, “Has the Election Commission given its work to the BJP on contract, or has the BJP hired the Election Commission on a contract basis?” He suggested that in the administrative thesaurus, ‘Election Commission’ should be added as a synonym for the ‘BJP’.

Akhilesh Yadav alleged that activities like openly manipulating of votes are taking place during the current regime, but constitutional institutions are turning a blind eye. He said that those who are snatching votes today will snatch other rights of the people tomorrow, and even BJP supporters will not be safe. He said, “Thieves only have a relationship with thievery,” and this is why the trust of the common people is continuously being broken.

In another post, he described ‘PDA’ as a shared feeling connected to suffering, saying, “Those who are suffering are the PDA.”

The Samajwadi Party chief has coined the abbreviation PDA for pichde (backward classes), Dalits, and alpsankhyak (minorities), and has been using the expression as a political plank to gain votes.

According to Akhilesh Yadav, the PDA community is now uniting and speaking out openly instead of silently enduring the oppression. He claimed that until now, people have formed governments for others, but in the future, they will form their own ‘PDA government’ to establish a rule of social justice, where everyone will receive equal respect, equal opportunities for progress, and shared prosperity.

The SP chief said that the negative strategies of those who have been dividing a large section of society for years are now failing. “Good people” from every community, fed up with corruption and oppression, are increasingly connecting with the positive, progressive, and harmonious idea of PDA. According to him, “PDA is no longer just a political concept but has become a new name for hope.”