WITH THE Election Commission announcing the second phase of SIR of electoral rolls in 12 states, including Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has decided to appoint senior party workers as “SIR PDA prahri” to keep a watch on the exercise and ensure that genuine voters from “pichhda, Dalit and minority communities” in Uttar Pradesh prevail in the final voters’ list after exercise in every Assembly constituency, sources said. Yadav does not want to take any chances with the voters’ list ahead of the 2027 UP Assembly polls.

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