While Congress leader and leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has been raising questions on the Election Commission’s (EC) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has hit back, accusing Congress MP Sonia Gandhi of being listed on India’s electoral rolls three years before she acquired Indian citizen.
BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya claimed, ‘Sonia Gandhi’s tryst with India’s voters’ list is riddled with glaring violations of electoral law. This perhaps explains Rahul Gandhi’s fondness for regularising ineligible and illegal voters, and his opposition to the SIR’. Malviya added, ‘Her name first appeared on the rolls in 1980 - three years before she became an Indian citizen and while she still held Italian citizenship. At the time, the Gandhi family lived at 1, Safdarjung Road, the official residence of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Until then, the voters registered at that address were Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, and Maneka Gandhi’.
BJP MP and former Union Minister Anurag Thakur also claimed that Sonia Gandhi, who was born in Italy, was added to the voter list in 1980, despite acquiring Indian citizenship only in 1983.
Gandhi last week launched a campaign against what he called ‘vote chori’ by the EC in collusion with the BJP through the SIR. He gave several examples to substantiate his allegations that votes are being stolen, there are duplicate voters, those with fake and invalid addresses, bulk voters or single address voters, voters with invalid photos and those misusing Form 6 of new voters.
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