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Amit Shah said 3 cr infiltrators in voter list. He needs a factcheck

Amit Shah said 3 cr infiltrators in voter list. He needs a factcheck

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In the Mahadevapura Assembly constituency in Karnataka, over 800 voter IDs were found linked to 397 names after the SIR, with some voters appearing in the final rolls with the same EPIC number in two different constituencies and others issued multiple EPIC IDs. Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh clarified that biometrics and voter IDs are used for beneficiary payments, not Aadhaar. Earlier related coverage noted a political dispute in which the BJP accused the Congress and Rahul Gandhi of ‘naam chori’ amid vote‑theft charges.

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    Home Minister Amit Shah, at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rally in Hyderabad on Monday, November 2, said India’s voter lists carried 3 crore “infiltrators.” Off the 13 crore names struck off in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists, over 6 crore had shifted, he said. About 3 crore were…

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Home Minister Amit Shah, at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rally in Hyderabad on Monday, November 2, said India’s voter lists carried 3 crore “infiltrators.” Off the 13 crore names struck off in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists, over 6 crore had shifted, he said. About 3 crore were…

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