Congress Challenges Amit Shah in Lok Sabha, Factors to Indicators of Strain

Chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday (December 11, 2025) reiterated that he had challenged Residence Minister Amit Shah to a debate on “vote chori” on the ground of the Home, and claimed the Residence Minister gave the impression to be “below strain”.

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The Congress additionally took on Mr. Shah for his declare that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had obtained extra votes than Jawaharlal Nehru within the Congress presidential election in 1946.

“He [Shah] used the unsuitable language, his arms have been shaking, you’d have seen all this. He’s below strain mentally and that was witnessed in Parliament, the entire nation noticed it,” Mr. Gandhi informed reporters within the Parliament Home, including, “The issues I’ve mentioned, he didn’t handle, didn’t give any proof. We have now mentioned it publicly in press conferences. I instantly challenged him to allow us to talk about my press conferences in Parliament, however didn’t get a solution. the fact.”

On Wednesday (December 10, 2025), Opposition MPs, together with Mr. Gandhi, staged a walkout within the Lok Sabha in the course of the debate on electoral reforms, claiming that the Residence Minister didn’t reply to any of the factors raised by him and remained evasive on varied points, together with clear voter lists, EVMs and granting immunity to the Chief Election Commissioner.

On Thursday (December 11, 2025), the social gathering additionally contested Mr. Shah’s allegations that the primary “vote chori” came about within the Congress when Nehru grew to become social gathering president and thereafter the interim Prime Minister regardless of Sardar Patel getting extra votes.

Congress communications chief Jairam Ramesh shared a video of a celebration colleague on his X deal with, and mentioned, “My colleague Piyush Babele has completely uncovered one of many HM’s many lies within the Lok Sabha yesterday”.

“In accordance with this lie, it’s said that in 1946, elections to Congress presidentship came about and Patel received extra votes however regardless of Nehru getting much less votes he was made Congress president and due to this fact went on to turn into the Prime Minister. The reality is that the election that needed to happen in 1946 for Congress presidentship didn’t happen,” Mr. Babele mentioned within the video.

Mr. Babele mentioned the Pradesh Congress Committees had despatched their suggestions and a majority of them had spoken in favour of Patel however it should be remembered that within the election of the Congress president, the opinion of PCCs has no authorized standing and nobody may be made president on the premise of that. “It had turn into a practice that whomsoever Mahatma Gandhi chooses turns into the president and that additionally holds true for 1946,” he added.