The Bharatiya Janata Party – accused of ‘colluding’ with the Election Commission to commit voter fraud – counterattacked Wednesday by claiming ex-Congress boss Sonia Gandhi had been illegally, though briefly, added to the voter list 45 years ago, before she was an Indian citizen.
Ex-Union Minister Anurag Thakur claimed Mrs Gandhi – born Sonia Maino in Italy in 1946 – was added on the list from 1980 to1982, a year before she was an Indian citizen.
The allegations echoed what the BJP’s Amit Malviya posted on X hours earlier.
Mr Malviya posted what he said was a ‘photocopy of the extract from electoral rolls of 1980, indicating Sonia Gandhi was a voter when she did not yet acquire the citizenship of Bharat’. “If this isn’t blatant electoral malpractice, what is?”
He claimed Mrs Gandhi – who married Rajiv Gandhi in 1968 – had been added to the voter list while the Gandhi family lived at the official residence of then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
He claimed Sonia Gandhi’s name was added in a revision of the voter list – for the New Delhi parliamentary constituency – before the 1980 Lok Sabha election
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