Overview
- At a rally in Nalanda, Amit Shah said a nationwide Special Intensive Revision would identify 'infiltrators' and send them back to where they came from.
- He labeled Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra a 'Ghuspaithiya bachao yatra' and alleged that Lalu Prasad Yadav and Gandhi want to protect such voters.
- Congress communications chief Jairam Ramesh asked whether the Election Commission of India has the constitutional authority to determine citizenship.
- Ramesh also demanded the count of foreigners or infiltrators detected and deleted during Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
- The Election Commission defends the revision as a voter-list sanitisation exercise while saying consolidated numbers for deletions on non-citizen grounds are not available centrally.