Shah attacks Congress as Delhi launches Yamuna projects

Union Home Minister Amit Shah accused Congress and Rahul Gandhi of using vote-theft allegations to challenge election results and predicted the party would remain out of power for decades, as he attended the launch of Delhi water and sewer projects valued at Rs 8,941 crore. Speaking at an event in Delhi on Thursday, October 22, Shah said Congress would not return to power for 30 years because of what he called its negative politics. He argued that opposition protests over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls would not overturn voters’ mandates. The allegations and electoral predictions were Shah’s claims; the reports did not independently establish their substance or future outcomes. Shah accused Gandhi and Congress of raising vote-theft claims to protect votes he described as belonging to infiltrators. He also defended the Election Commission, saying opposition parties accepted its work when they won elections and questioned it after defeats. To support that argument, he cited results in Kerala, Telangana, Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Gandhi and Congress’s allegations concern purported electoral irregularities and collusion; Shah...