New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- Congress president and Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge and Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday intensified their attack on the Narendra Modi government over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, accusing the BJP-led Centre of invoking illegal immigration to divert attention from the alleged exclusion of crores of Indians from voter lists and restrictions on the right to protest.
Kharge accused union Home Minister Amit Shah of insulting Indian identity by describing the 13.3 crore people allegedly left out of the SIR process as "infiltrators". He also condemned the reported restrictions on protests at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi...