Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in Hyderabad that the INDIA bloc rally held in Delhi on Sunday was not to save votes but to save infiltrators who form the vote bank of “Congress and company”.

Speaking at Hyderabad ’s Mozamjahi Market on Monday evening, Shah, a BJP leader, said the SIR had identified three crore people as non-voters or infiltrators. “Now, I’m coming to what is causing a stomach ache for [Congress leader] Rahul Gandhi . Three crore votes were those which never existed. These votes were those of Bangladeshi infiltrators. Three crore people are such that they aren’t there. They aren’t around. Tell me whether these votes should be cut or not?”

He further said: “Who are these three crore people? They are infiltrators. Should we not remove them from the rolls?…