Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Harendra Malik wrote a letter to ECI accusing BJP of booth capturing in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar. "In BJP candidate [and Union Minister] Sanjeev Balyan's Kutbi Kutba village, booth capturing is being done...Voters are being beaten up and sent away without voting," Malik wrote. "Paramilitary forces should be immediately sent to the village," he added.