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CIVIC ELECTIONS on Tuesday concluded on a bitter taste with the mayoral candidates trading charges against each other. The BJP mayoral candidate Dinesh Sharma has accused the Samajwadi Party of bogus voting and booth rigging. ?The men in khaki stamped ballot papers at many places in the city,? he alleged.
CIVIC ELECTIONS on Tuesday concluded on a bitter taste with the mayoral candidates trading charges against each other. The BJP mayoral candidate Dinesh Sharma has accused the Samajwadi Party of bogus voting and booth rigging. “The men in khaki stamped ballot papers at many places in the city,” he alleged.
He said bogus votes were cast in Khurram Nagar, badali khera in Sarojini Nagar, Gehru ward on Kanpur Road, Pioneer Montessori, Hardeen Rai Ward, booths in Jankipuram, Kashmiri Mohalla, Balaganj, Gyan Montessori School, Kanhaiyya Madhopur gaon, Ambarganj ward, Govind Nagar Chowki, Badhali kera, etc by the supporters of Samajwadi Party.
Sharma further said that ruling party had pressed into into ‘service.’ He further alleged a large-scale rigging by the police. But, Sharma claimed that the polling was one sided and he would register a clean sweep.
The Congress Mayoral candidate Manzoor Ahmed said that he was far ahead of others in the poll. “Both the BJP and the Samajwadi Party will be second and third,” he added. The mayoral candidate claimed that he got full support from Gomti Nagar and other places of the city. Manzoor had accused the BJP and the SP of resorting to bogus voting. But, he was confident that the people of Lucknow have given him full support. He feared unfair voting in Khurram Nagar booths, and Indira Nagar.
Samajwadi Party candidate Madhu Gupta was not available for her comments.
The city unit chief of SP Mujib-ur Rehman said that the BJP, Congress and the BSP were united in the civic poll against the SP. “If they wanted to do this, they might as well fought under one umbrella,” he added. The city unit chief of the party said the party candidate was far ahead of anybody else in the fray for the mayoral post. “We have polled 45 to 50 per cent votes,” he claimed.
