Rahul Gandhi ‘spreading lies’ about SIR to cover Congress poll defeats: Amit Shah amid CEC protests
The Congress accused the home minister of using ‘bombast, bluff and bluster’.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of spreading lies about the special intensive revision of electoral rolls to cover the Opposition party’s electoral defeats, ANI reported.
His comments came as Opposition parties, student groups and the Cockroach Janta Party continued their protests demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and the scrapping of the voter roll revision.
Shah said the Congress needed to introspect about its repeated electoral losses rather than blame the revision of electoral rolls.
The Bharatiya Janata Party leader argued that the exercise began only after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and could not explain the Congress’ “poor performance” in several states over the years.
“Ever since you became the principal leader of the Congress, and later its president, and now the leader of the Opposition, the Congress party has continuously lost elections,” ANI quoted Shah as saying.
Shah accused Gandhi and his associates of attempting to protect “infiltrators” by opposing the voter roll revision, alleging that the Opposition wanted to get them registered as voters.
The statement came against the backdrop of a crackdown in several BJP-ruled states, where since May 2025, thousands of Bengali-speaking migrant workers have been rounded up and asked to prove that they are Indian citizens and not...
