Congress asks Home Minister Amit Shah if it is the EC’s responsibility to ‘identify’ foreigners

The Congress connected Thursday (October 30, 2025) deed retired astatine Union Home Minister Amit Shah, questioning whether it was the Election Commission’s law work to find citizenship and questioned however galore infiltrators were detected arsenic portion of Bihar’s peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

The main Opposition’s enactment stance came aft Mr. Shah, addressing a rally successful Bihar’s Nalanda, had said that aft a nationwide SIR of electoral rolls, “all infiltrators volition beryllium identified and sent backmost to the places they came from”.

“During elections, the Union Home Minister keeps saying that foreigners connected electoral rolls indispensable beryllium detected, deleted, and deported. But volition helium reply 2 elemental questions? Is it the law work of the Election Commission of India to find and determine citizenship? And however galore specified foreigners oregon infiltrators person really been detected and deleted arsenic portion of the Bihar SIR exercise?” Congress connection main Jairam Ramesh asked successful a station connected X.

At the aforesaid rally, the Home Minister besides mocked Congress person Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra, calling it a “Ghuspaithiya Bachao Yatra” (Save infiltrator march), and alleged that “Lalu [Prasad] and Rahul privation to prevention them.”

“I guarantee you that if the NDA authorities is formed again, each infiltrator volition beryllium identified and driven out,” Mr. Shah said, adding that the Narendra Modi authorities was committed to “driving retired infiltrators who usurp mediocre people’s foodgrains, jobs and indulge successful anti-national activities.”