Fact check: Did Akhilesh Yadav appeal to cancel the election in Kunda?

UP Elections have reached their 6^th phase and today CM Yogi Adityanath will face assembly election as a contestant in Gorakhpur. CM Yogi is found confident over winning 80% of seats in UP.

Meanwhile, a claim is getting viral on social media by Rajhuraj Pratap Singh MLA from Kunda District in Uttar Pradesh.  He claimed that SP president Akhilesh Yadav has shared a video from Haryana and claimed that a man is caught doing illegal activities on the Kunda election booth. SP President also appealed to cancel the assembly polling in Kunda.

Rajhuraj Pratap Singh posted the tweet with embedding Akhilesh Yadav’s tweet inserting a picture on 1^st March 2022.

आदरणीय ⁦@yadavakhilesh⁩ जी, आप एक दल के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष हैं और वरिष्ठ राजनेता भी, उक्त वीडियो 2019 के चुनाव का हरियाणा का है जिसे आप कुण्डा का बताकर चुनाव निरस्त करने की माँग कर रहे हैं, राजनीति में इतनी घृणा भी अच्छी नहीं होती। pic.twitter.com/NyBiv6yoAs

— Raja Bhaiya (@Raghuraj_Bhadri) March 1, 2022

Fact check

After checking the authenticity of the tweet, we found no such tweet on the Twitter profile of Akhilesh Yadav. We only found one tweet where he wrote that goon’s governance will stop and people from different caste will work together in Kunda. He also claimed that the people of Kunda will demand no BJP in this election.  The tweet was made on 27^th February 2022. He also inserted a video of Bharat Samachar which covered news of SP candidate Gulshan Yadav from Pratapgarh being attacked in Kunda during the polling.

गुंडे की कुंडी बंद होगी ,
राजा की गुंडागर्दी बंद होगी ,
कुंडा हो या यूपी ,
जनता का राज चलेगा ,
दलित पिछड़ा अल्पसंख्यक और ब्राह्मण व व्यापारी अब एकसाथ चलेगा ,
बहुत हुआ आदित्यनाथ जी का जातिवाद ,#नहीं_चाहिए_भाजपा सरकार#नहीं_चाहिए_आदित्यनाथ का राज#हमें_चाहिए_समाजवादी_सरकार
1/3 pic.twitter.com/da7I6a9GcW

— SamajwadiPartyMediaCell (@MediaCellSP) February 27, 2022

Therefore the claim is fake and the picture is edited.

Claim review: Akhilesh Yadav appealed to cancel the polling in Kunda

Claim by: Rajhuraj Pratap Singh

Fact check: Fake