Tiger may be Zinda.
But is it a case of wounded tiger?
"Sardar Patel got 28 votes and Jawaharlal Nehru got 2 votes. But Jawaharlal Nehru became the Prime Minister...," --- Amit Shah in Lok Sabha during debate on electoral reforms.
Taking the battle further deep into the enemy camp; the Home Minister cited another 'vote chori'.
"Sonia Gandhi became a voter first and became Indian citizen later ... This dispute is in court now".
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 witnessed an intense showdown between Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi and Amit Shah over electoral reforms, with the latter accusing Rahul’s great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru of engaging in vote-chori to become the first Prime Minister of the country.
The Home Minister hit back at the Congress during the discussion on electoral reforms, saying that there is nothing wrong with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), as its members have sacrificed their lives for the country, and that both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he himself are followers of the organisation.
"I would like to tell you about 3 incidents of voter chori. First, after independence, the PM of the country was to be elected...Sardar Patel got 28 votes and Jawaharlal Nehru got 2 votes. But Jawaharlal Nehru became the Prime Minister...," he said.
It was also a proven fact that Indira Gandhi had won elections by rigging them and then granted herself immunity, he said in reference to Rae Bareily case.
Amit Shah said that he had levelled numerous allegations against Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, and Sonia Gandhi in the past, and that a walkout at that time would have been logical.
Instead, he pointed out that the Opposition chose to walk out over the issue of infiltrators. He asserted that the government’s policy is to “detect, delete and deport”.
The second 'vote chori' was by Indira Gandhi, when she granted herself immunity after a court set aside her election, Shah said.
In 1975, the Allahabad High Court held then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi guilty of electoral malpractices and invalidated her win from Raebareli. She was also disqualified from holding public office for 6 years.
The Supreme Court eventually reversed the High Court's decision after the election laws were amended retrospectively during the Emergency period.
Continuing his tirade against the Congress, Shah further said, "The dispute of the third vote chori has just reached civil courts on how Sonia Gandhi became a voter before becoming a citizen of India."
On Tuesday, a Delhi court issued a notice to veteran Congress leader Sonia Gandhi over irregularities in the manner her name was included in the electoral rolls in 1980-81 before she became an Indian citizen.
The Congress, however, argued that Sonia never voted despite being named in the electoral rolls.
“Let me tell the Congress people that the Prime Minister does not hack EVMs, he has hacked the people’s hearts,” Kangana told the Lok Sabha during a debate on electoral reforms that featured one of the pet issues of India’s leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, “vote theft”.
Kangana told the fellow MPs in the Lok Sabha she had expected a “grand revelation” from the leader of Opposition, but it came as a grand thud. The Gandhi siblings, Rahul and Priyanka, and their mother Sonia, the first-time MP said, have always been “steeped in entitlement”.
Speaking at the debate on Tuesday, Rahul had referred to a Brazilian model whose photographs under different names had appeared 22 times in the electoral rolls in Haryana.
“A Brazilian woman appeared 22 times in the Haryana voter list. Another woman’s name appeared 200 times. The Haryana election was stolen. I have said this again and again and again. But the Election Commission hasn’t answered my questions,” Rahul Gandhi has said.
As Rahul mentioned the name of the Brazilian woman, a hair-stylist from a little known town in Brazil, Congress MPs seated behind the leader of Opposition had flashed her photograph inside the Parliament.
Kangana apologised to Larissa Nery.
“As a woman, I want to say every woman is entitled to her dignity,” she said. “Yet they flashed her image without any evidence.
That is a violation of personal rights. On behalf of this House, I apologise to her.”
Kangana also explained, without mentioning the name Larissa Nery, that she had clarified many times that she had never visited India.
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