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Rahul Sure About Defeat, So Protesting Against SIR: Shah

The New Indian Express Shivamogga

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August 09, 2025

UNION Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday fired a salvo at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and RJD chief Lalu Prasad by accusing them of resisting the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bihar as they apprehended that their parties would face a crushing defeat in the upcoming Assembly elections.

- RAMASHANKAR @ Patna

Shah was addressing a public meeting after laying foundation stone for the re-development of the Mata Janaki temple at Punaura Dham in Bihar's Sitamarhi, a part of Mithilanchal. He contended that the revision process of the voter list was carried out several times in the country, but nobody had protested it before. "Lalu and Rahul are protecting those infiltrators who are snatching jobs from Bihar's youths by protesting SIR. Bihar's people will never accept those seeking votes of these infiltrators," he said, adding that these Bangladeshi infiltrators were the core vote

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