BHARATIYA Janata Party (BJP) IT Cell chief Amit Malviya on Wednesday alleged that Congress leader Sonia Gandhi wasregistered asavoterinIndia even before she became an Indian citizen. His remarks came after the Congress criticised allegedirregularities in the voters’ list and opposed the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. “Sonia Gandhi’s tryst with India’svoters’listis riddledwith glaring violations of electoral law.ThisperhapsexplainsRahul Gandhi’s fondness for regularising ineligible and illegal voters, and his opposition to SIR,” Malviya claimed in a post on X.

 

According to Malviya, Sonia Gandhi’s name first appeared on the electoral rolls in 1980 -- three years before she obtained Indian citizenship, when she still held Italian citizenship. At the time,theGandhi familylived at 1, Safdarjung Road, the officialresidenceofPrimeMinister Indira Gandhi. Until then, the voters registered at thataddress were Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi and Maneka Gandhi. He said,the electoralrolls for the New Delhi parliamentary constituency were revised with January 1, 1980, as the qualifying date. During this revision, SoniaGandhi’snamewasadded at serial number 388 in polling station 145.