Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday alleged that a company, which had donated electoral bonds to the BJP, was involved in the SIR-related mapping.
Addressing a press conference in Hyderabad after the Vision India AI Summit, Yadav claimed, “The company knows where the data is going. The BJP is conducting Special Intensive Revision (SIR) to win elections through manipulation.” Yadav questioned the credibility of the mapping app being used in the exercise, alleging discrepancies in the data. Yadav said the Government is using the SIR of electoral rolls as an “NRC,” claiming that the exercise can potentially affect the votes of nearly three crore people.
The SP chief said, “The Election Commission’s job is to make votes, not cut them. No one’s vote should be deleted, but in the name of SIR, the Government is conducting the NRC. In Uttar Pradesh, votes of nearly three crore people are being cut.” Yadav further said politics in the country should be based on “vision, not division”. “We want to do politics of vision. The politics of division and polarisation in the country must be stopped,” he said. Speaking about technology and artificial intelligence (AI), Yadav said the Party believed in development politics. He said rapid technological changes were taking place globally and stressed that the benefits of technology should reach everyone without discrimination on the basis of caste or religion.
