New Delhi: Union Minister and BJP President J.P. Nadda on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the Congress for alleging electoral malpractice, saying the party was spreading misconceptions after repeated electoral defeats. Speaking during a discussion on electoral reforms in the Rajya Sabha, Nadda defended the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and expressed concern over the presence of infiltrators in voter lists.
Targeting the Congress, Nadda said the party was trying to shift the blame for its electoral losses onto the Election Commission instead of introspecting. “You are applying the medicine in the wrong place while the disease lies elsewhere,” he remarked, adding that the Congress needed to identify its real problems rather than misleading its workers.
Nadda accused the Congress of undermining national interest by questioning the credibility of the Election Commission merely to pacify its cadre. “To claim that elections are being lost because the Election Commission is manipulating the process is a false narrative. By doing so, you are compromising the country’s interests for your party’s benefit,” he said.
Emphasizing the need for clean and accurate electoral rolls, the Union minister raised the issue of illegal infiltrators being included in voter lists. He said such names should not be allowed to remain and that a thorough and impartial cleansing of electoral rolls was essential.
Defending the SIR process, Nadda described it as an integral part of India’s democratic framework and pointed out that similar exercises were conducted even during Congress-led governments in the past. He also noted that for decades, the responsibility of overseeing the Election Commission largely rested with a single party and a single family when the Congress was in power, yet the institution’s credibility was never questioned then.
According to Nadda, the recent election results have clearly disappointed the opposition, leading it to raise unfounded allegations instead of engaging in constructive debate on electoral reforms.