A combative Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday hit out at the opposition in the Lok Sabha for its campaign against SIR, saying the issue has been raked up as it can no longer win elections by ‘corrupt practices’, and asserted that the reason for Congress’ defeat in polls was its leadership, not EVMs or ‘vote chori’. In his intervention in the debate on election reforms, Shah alleged that the opposition wanted to keep the “avaidh ghuspathiye’ (illegal immigrants) in the voter list and hence the SIR issue was raised, but the Narendra Modi government’s policy is clear — detect all aliens, delete their names from the voters list and throw them out of country.

Shah gave a point-by-point rebuttal to the opposition’s charges on SIR during his 90-minute speech, which also saw Leader of Op

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