Overview
- Rahul Gandhi interrupted the address and challenged Amit Shah to a public debate on his press conferences alleging “vote chori.”
- Shah said the Special Intensive Revision aims to remove deceased persons and foreign nationals and framed the policy as “detect, delete and deport” infiltrators.
- Accusing rivals of protecting illegal entries on rolls, Shah warned parties opposing SIR that they would be “wiped out” in states such as West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.
- He cited multiple precedents for detailed roll revisions between 1952 and 2004, largely under Congress governments, and asserted that the exercise keeps elections clean.
- After the speech, Opposition MPs walked out, Congress leaders said key questions went unanswered, BJP allies hailed the remarks, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the 90‑minute speech as “outstanding.”