After offering prayers at the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi, BJP president Nitin Nabin launched a harsh salvo against Rahul Gandhi, claiming the opposition leader was “providing shelter to infiltrators” and that the polls were being poisoned by an anarchic mindset.
The attack was followed by a counter‑tweet from senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, who asked why the Election Commission was conducting special re‑enrolment camps for voters whose names had been omitted from the rolls, calling the move an attempt to give rights to “infiltrators.”
Chidambaram’s post on X highlighted that protests by Congress, the INDIA bloc and youth groups have forced state chief executives to question the ECI and to organise mass re‑enrolment drives, pointing to the commission’s effort to rectify omitted voters.
The issue echoes long‑standing accusations that the ECI has been complicit in allowing non‑citizens to vote, a claim the BJP has repeatedly denied. Nabin said the BJP would oppose any attempt to grant rights to alleged infiltrators over India’s resources, wealth and land.
The re‑enrolment camps, already underway across several states, aim to bring back genuine citizens whose names were inadvertently left off the electoral rolls in the last census; the move has sparked a sharp debate over the integrity of the electoral process.
With the ECI continuing its re‑enrolment drive, the Congress is expected to file a formal objection in the coming days, potentially bringing the dispute before the Supreme Court.