Uttar Pradesh police acting as Mayawati's agents: Mulayam Singh Yadav

Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today alleged that District Magistrates and Superintendents of Police were working as agents of the ruling BSP in the ongoing Panchayat polls in Uttar Pradesh.

Talking to reporters, he also alleged horse-trading and other irregularities in the elections and said his party would submit a report to the Election Commission in this regard.

If necessary, the party would also move the Supreme Court or the high court in this connection, Yadav said.

"In the ongoing elections for chairmen of district panchayats, it is not the BSP candidates but the DMs and SPs, who seem to be actually in the fray," he said.

"Mayawati is corrupting the political system in the state and his party will stage demonstrations to check such tendencies," the SP president said.

In many places, members of district Panchayat were being pressurised by the DMs and the SPs to vote in favour of BSP candidates, he alleged.

"In Kanpur, an SP candidate was forced to withdraw his nomination paper by the DM," Yadav said.