Shah alleges 3 crore deleted voters were Bangladeshi infiltrators

Union Home Minister Amit Shah alleged at a rally in Hyderabad on November 2 that three crore people removed from voter rolls during India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) were Bangladeshi infiltrators, a claim not independently verified in the reports. He said the names were among roughly 13 crore removed from the rolls and that the alleged infiltrators should be excluded from voting and expelled from the country. Shah described the revision as necessary to remove ineligible entries and said the Bharatiya Janata Party would support it. In his account of the removed names, more than six crore voters had shifted, nearly three crore were deceased and about one crore entries were duplicates. He also characterized three crore entries as belonging to people who did not exist, identifying them as Bangladeshi infiltrators. The reports provide no disclosed list or underlying records substantiating that classification or the figure. Shah accused Congress and other opposition parties of opposing the revision to protect alleged infiltrators, and challenged Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to debate the issue in Parliament. He said the Centre was prepared to convene a special parliamentary...