Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday (November 6, 2026) said Home Minister Amit Shah should not confuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi and instead should convince the PM to have an open debate with him on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
Mr. Gandhi shared a video montage contrasting Mr. In a post in Hindi, Mr. Just convince him to have an open debate with me. Any platform, any time. The BJP leaders have scoffed at Mr. Gandhi’s challenge. Gandhi is asking the PM to choose the venue for a debate, there already exists one in Parliament and reminded him that he happens to be the LoP in the Lok Sabha and needs to show some seriousness and responsibility.
Shah’s remarks in Parliament in December last year that a debate on the SIR of electoral rolls cannot take place in the two Houses with his comments on Thursday (November 5, 2026) that the government is open to convening a special session of Parliament to discuss the SIR.
Gandhi said, “Amit Shah ji, don’t confuse Modi ji. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that while Mr.
Tagging Mr. Gandhi’s post, Congress general secretary in charge of communications Jairam Ramesh also took a dig at Modi. Mr. Gandhi has been repeatedly daring Prime Minister Modi to debate with him openly.
“Daro Mat (Do not be scared),” the leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha said. The former Congress president has “guaranteed” that it would be proven in five minutes that the PM was a traitor.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has also said the Prime Minister should come forward and face the questions on vote theft that the nation was posing.
