Voter List Row: BJP Alleges Sonia Gandhi's Name Added to Voter List Illegally Pre-Citizenship

New Delhi (The Uttam Hindu): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday launched a major counter attack on the Congress, alleging that former Congress president Sonia Gandhi's name was illegally added to the voter list years before she got Indian citizenship. Former Union Minister Anurag Thakur claimed that Italy-born Sonia Gandhi's name was included in the voter list from 1980 to 1982, while she got Indian citizenship in April 1983.

BJP leader Amit Malviya also posted on the social media platform 'X' regarding this matter. Malviya shared a photocopy of a part of the 1980 voter list and said that Sonia Gandhi's name was registered as a voter in it, although she was not a citizen of India at that time. He said that this was a clear violation of the law under which it is mandatory to be an Indian citizen to register as a voter.

Malviya claimed that Sonia Gandhi's name was added to the list after her marriage to Rajiv Gandhi in 1968 when the Gandhi family lived in the official residence of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. He said the name was included during the revision of the voters' list of the New Delhi parliamentary constituency before the 1980 Lok Sabha elections and was removed in 1982 following an uproar.

Malviya also alleged that adding his name again after he got Indian citizenship in 1983 was also “fraudulent”. He claimed that the cut-off date for this was January 1, but Sonia Gandhi got citizenship in April.

Along with these allegations, Anurag Thakur also attacked Rahul Gandhi on the issue of voter fraud in Maharashtra and Karnataka last year. He accused the Congress MP of lying and presenting wrong figures.