Overview

• Amit Malviya of the BJP IT cell posted a scanned January 1980 electoral roll showing Sonia Gandhi’s name, alleging she registered as a voter before gaining Indian citizenship.
• Congress Kerala and a Trinamool Congress MP have branded the shared document a forgery, citing the anachronistic reference to the National Capital Territory of Delhi which did not exist in 1980.
• Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat accused the Congress of systematic electoral malpractice and issued a public challenge to Rahul Gandhi to address his mother’s voter registration.
• The Election Commission has not authenticated the document and faces renewed demands to investigate the BJP’s IT cell for potential forgery under electoral law.
• The controversy compounds a week of INDIA bloc protests and Supreme Court scrutiny over voter-roll revisions and transparency measures such as machine-readable lists.