SP men keep eye on UP counting centres

LUCKNOW: From ensuring vigil camps at strong rooms where EVMs are kept in every district of the state to issuing series of advisories on dos and don’ts for the party’s counting agents on how to monitor counting of votes, Samajwadi Party leadership on Wednesday remained focused on ‘every possible mechanism which could help thwart any attempts to manipulate the election results’.

SP president Akhilesh Yadav, who deputed senior leaders in each of the 75 districts on Tuesday night to set up camps and ensure round-the-clock vigil of strong rooms where EVMs are kept, put out an alert for party cadres to beware of a ‘conspiracy by the ruling BJP to manipulate the election results’. With former UP CM personally monitoring the deployment of cadres, SP netas swung into actions around strong rooms where EVMs have been kept and checked every vehicle that entered or left the premises, including those belonging to the security forces.

Party cadres had not only set up camps but installed video cameras all around the strong room and set up mini control rooms keep a close watch on the premises through hand held

CCTV

cameras that party cadres are carrying with them while patrolling the strong room campuses across the state.

Meanhwile Akhilesh Yadav

’s call to party workers to visit the counting centers on Wednesday and stay put till the counting is over, has sent the authorities into a huddle to prepare a security plan in case large crowds turn up at the

counting centres

.