‘Vote chori began with Nehru, Sonia a voter before citizen’: Shah rips into Cong

Amit Shah said the Opposition “gets angry when we talk of history, but how can any country or society move forward without history”.

Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday used the Lok Sabha debate on electoral reforms to launch a sharp attack on the Congress , accusing its leaders of making “baseless allegations” about voter fraud while ignoring what he described as a long history of irregularities under previous Congress governments.

Speaking during the debate, Shah said the Opposition “gets angry when we talk of history, but how can any country or society move forward without history”. He then cited a series of claims to argue that “vote chori” was not new and had its roots in earlier Congress administrations.

Shah alleged that the first instance of “vote chori” took place