Lagatar24 Desk
Lucknow, Feb 15: Omprakash Rajbhar, the leader of the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP), made a stunning assertion on Tuesday, claiming that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adiyanath intends to assassinate me.
Rajbhar told reporters that he was attacked on Monday while accompanying his party’s candidate Arvind Rajbhar to file his nomination papers in Varanasi’s Shivpur constituency.
The leader of the SBSP, who has formed an alliance with Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party, stated that “Yogi Ji wants to get me killed. Goons of BJP & Yogi were sent there in black coats.”
“I demand the Election Commission of India to provide security to Omprakash Rajbhar and Arvind Rajbhar,” he tells EC.
Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party chief Omprakash Rajbhar says he was attacked during filing of nomination of party candidate Arvind Rajbhar from Varanasi's Shivpur constituency y'day
"Yogi Ji wants to get me killed. Goons of BJP & Yogi were sent there in black coats," he says pic.twitter.com/VNHZ1aYgAC
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) February 15, 2022
Notably, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh are preparing for the third phase of the assembly elections, which is set to take place on February 20. Meanwhile, Manipur will hold a single-phase poll on February 27. On Monday, all constituencies in Uttarakhand and Goa voted, while elections were held in 55 constituencies in nine districts in Uttar Pradesh: Saharanpur, Bijnor, Amroha, Sambhal, Moradabad, Rampur, Bareilly, Budaun, and Shahjahanpur.
On March 10, all five states will have their ballots counted.
