BJP questions Congress after court order on Sonia’s electoral roll entry

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Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi. File photo: AICC via PTI.

The BJP attacked the Congress on Tuesday (September 2, 2026), a day after a Delhi court set aside a Magistrate’s order refusing to inquire into a complaint alleging that senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s name appeared on the electoral roll in 1980, three years before she became an Indian citizen.

The court has remanded the matter back to the Magistrate court to pass a reasoned order after hearing fresh arguments.

At a press conference on Tuesday, BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari asked if there were any irregularities in the inclusion of Ms. Gandhi’s name in the electoral roll in 1980. Stating that such an action was a violation of Article 326 of the Constitution and the Representation of the People Act, he said it was also a cognisable offence.

Mr. Bhandari said Ms. Gandhi was not an Indian citizen in 1980 and questioned whether there had been an “attempt to forge documents, given that the Congress was in power from 1980 to 1983”.

“There can be no greater theft of democracy than this, because on the one hand, they support infiltrators in the name of opposing the SIR (Special Intensive Revision), while on the other hand, when they themselves allegedly steal democracy through forged documents, they remain silent,” he alleged, seeking a clarification from Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.

“If Rahul Gandhi does not answer all these questions, the people of the country and the youth will understand his silence as an admission of guilt, indicating that they have committed theft of democracy,” said Mr. Bhandari.

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