People of West Bengal endorsed SIR despite opposition’s campaign: Amit Shah
29/05/2026
Ahmedabad, May 28: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said that despite the Opposition's campaign, the people of West Bengal supported the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls along with the principle that only Indian citizens should have the right to vote. Speaking at a gathering after inaugurating a hostel campus built by the Umiya Mataji Sansthan in Sola area of Ahmedabad, Shah said the Supreme Court too upheld the constitutional validity of the SIR exercise carried out by the Election Commission.
"When the Election Commission initiated the SIR, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his allied parties launched a nationwide campaign against it.
They even went to the Supreme Court. But in the elections, the people of West Bengal demonstr-ated that they stand with the SIR," he said. People also affirmed that infiltration into the country must not be allowed, the Union minister added. The final verdict of the Supreme Court established that the SIR exercise was constitutionally correct, he said.
The apex court on May 25 upheld the Election Commission's powers to conduct a Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls.
Shah further said the Narendra Modi government established a core principle that the right to decide the future of the country should belong only to Indian citizens and "not to infiltrators".
The Union minister also claimed that infiltration into West Bengal has decreased sharply after the political change in the state.
"In Bengal, the (BJP) chief minister has only recently taken oath.
Earlier, 5,000 to 10,000 infiltrators used to enter daily. Now, 5,000 to 10,000 have started going back daily (to Bangladesh)," he said.
Highlighting the Modi government's record on internal security, Shah said terrorism and Naxalism have been effectively curbed.
"Internal threats like terrorism and Naxalism have been eliminated in a short span of 10 years under Narendra Modi's leadership. The BJP government has achieved the monumental task of ending Naxalism, which had remained a festering wound for 50 years, by March 31, 2026," he said.
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