Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav and senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi shared a video of the incident on social media. The video shows a teenager pressing the EVM button seven to eight times in front of the BJP candidate in the constituency, Mukesh Rajput.

BJP leader Maneka Gandhi, seeking re-election from Sultanpur, said she is only concerned about the problems of her constituency and refrained from commenting on the BJP's call to wipe out the Congress from Rae Bareli.

The Uttar Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) issued a show cause notice to its Fatehpur Sikri MLA Babulal Chaudhary for his son's decision to file his nomination papers as an Independent candidate..