BSP supremo Mayawati on Wednesday accused the BJP of misusing government machinery to influence the Lok Sabha elections and questioned why the Election Commission (EC) was not taking cognisance in the matter."The BJP governments in Uttar Pradesh and other states have misused government machinery to influence elections. They have crossed all limits particularly, during the voting day. Such examples are found in Uttar Pradesh, Tripura and Maharashtra. Despite this, why the EC is not taking cognisance in the matter?" she wrote on her Twitter handle.Mayawati cited the incident where Prime Minister Narendra Modi had recently said that he was in touch with around 40 TMC MLAs."Recently their anti-public ego spoke so high that they openly threatened to bring down the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal by bringing 40 TMC MLAs in their fold. This statement stands at the pinnacle of a political conspiracy. People of Bengal and this country will not forgive (the BJP)," read another tweet ..
