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Shah Ties Nationwide Voter-List Revision to Expelling 'Infiltrators' as Congress Presses ECI on Citizenship

Opposition scrutiny now centers on Bihar's special revision, with no verified figures for non-citizen deletions.

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.