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21 Nov 2025, 9:10 am

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said that the BJP-led NDA’s sweeping victory in the Bihar assembly elections reflected a strong public mandate against “infiltrators”, and accused Opposition parties of shielding illegal immigrants by resisting the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

Speaking at the BSF’s 61st Raising Day celebrations in Bhuj, Kutch, Shah said parties opposing the SIR exercise want to ensure that “names of infiltrators remain on the voters’ list”.

He described the SIR as a “purification” process crucial for protecting India’s democratic system.

“Stopping infiltration is essential not only for national security but also for safeguarding our democracy. Some political parties are weakening the anti-infiltration campaign,” Amit Shah said, adding that the government is committed to deporting “every single infiltrator”.

Opposition parties, including the Trinamool Congress in poll-bound West Bengal, have alleged that the SIR could disenfranchise lakhs of valid voters.

Shah countered that no political party supporting infiltrators will gain public support. “The Bihar election was a clear mandate against infiltrators,” he said. The NDA won over 200 seats in the 243-member Assembly, decimating the Mahagathbandhan.