During a Lok Sabha debate on electoral reforms, Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement led to strong protests by Congress MPs. The home minister lashed out at Congress over the remarks of “vote chori”, he said that there has been “vote chori” in three Congress eras by different leaders. He said the former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and party leader Sonia Gandhi were involved in “vote chori”.
He further declared that the Congress’s claim that the BJP was involved in “vote theft” is senseless, as he goes on to mention vote theft by three Congress leaders. The first during Jawaharlal Nehru’s tenure second during Indira Gandhi’s tenure, and the alleged pending court case involving Sonia Gandhi, whether she is a citizen of India or not.
The Home Minister said that Sonia Gandhi was registered as a voter, while she was still not a citizen of India. The Congress leaders erupted in the house as KC Venugopal, the Congress MP, also raised a point of order. While Shah stated that he just stated some facts, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi must give answers to the court rather than the leaders speaking in the Lok Sabha.
During the Lok Sabha debate on electoral reforms, Shah referred to the nuclear bomb that Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the opposition, claimed to have dropped on 5 November 2025, where he alleged that 501 votes had been cast from one house in Haryana. He clarified that the Election Commission has later clarified that House Number 265 was not a small house, but a large space where several families lived together. But no different house numbers have been given to the families, which is why the same number 265 has been allotted to them.
Citing this, he claimed that there was no vote theft and every vote was legal and correct. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has presented unaccounted votes in five categories, namely, invalid addresses, duplicate voters, bulk voters, and others. The current debate in the ongoing winter session is around the SIR draft conducted by the Election Commission of India.
