PM Modi lauds Amit Shah’s Lok Sabha speech on SIR
While calling Shah’s speech “outstanding”, the PM Modi inister said it included “concrete facts” and showcased the diversity of India’s electoral process.
In his 90-minute speech in the Lower House earlier Amit Shah gave a point-by-point presentation of the government’s stance on SIR. Opening his address, the union home minister accused the three generations of the Nehru-Gandhi family of what he termed “vote chori.”
Shah added that post-Independence Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had 28 proposers while Jawaharlal Nehru had only two, “yet Nehru still became Prime Minister – this was vote chori.”
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, interjected and challenged the Amit Shah to publicly debate his three press conferences on “vote chori”.
Responding to the LoP, Shah said he would decide the order of his remarks. “he has long experience… they should be patient. He will answer every question, but they cannot decide the order of his speech.
The union home minister also attacked the Congress party on its electoral setbacks, while saying the party blamed everyone except themselves. “If a journalist questions them, he becomes a BJP agent. If they lose a case, the judge is blamed. If they lose an election, they blame EVMs,” Shah said.
Shah also addressed Rahul’s claim over “501 votes registered at a single house in Haryana.” Citing the Election Commission’s clarification on the matter, Shah said there was “nothing irregular” about the address.
Shah said the address, House No 265, is a “one-acre ancestral plot with multiple families and generations living together, all continuing to use a shared house number.”
News Edit KV Raman
