New Delhi, Nov. 6 -- The political confrontation over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls intensified on Friday, with Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi renewing his challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for an open debate and asking Union Home Minister Amit Shah to convince him to accept it, while Shah hit back at the Opposition's campaign, calling its 'Vote Bachao' yatra a 'Ghuspatiya Bachao Yatra'.

The face-off comes amid growing Opposition protests against the electoral roll revision exercise and fresh instructions issued by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to provide another opportunity to voters marked under the Absent, Shifted, Dead and Duplicate (ASDD) category to get their names included...