"The Election Commission should instruct the central government not to present the general budget on February 1 and just as 2012, it be presented only after the completion of polling process on March 8," Mayawati said in a party release issued here.
"Voters can be influenced through the budget and thereby free and fair elections can be effected," Mayawati stressed.
Welcoming the decision to hold seven-phased elections in UP, Mayawati alleged that the state's police and machinery had been used for political purposes by the Akhilesh Yadav government and there were chances that it could be misused by the caretaker government as well.
To check any misuse of the police and administration by the care-taker government, there is a need to deploy central forces as much as possible and keep a strict eye on the local police, she said.
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