The Congress will suffer its fourth consecutive defeat, while the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will return to power with an overwhelming majority in the 2029 Lok Sabha elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday (October 13, 2026), following the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) victory in Gujarat’s local body elections.
The Home Minister questioned Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi’s allegations concerning the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, asking whether the BJP’s victory in Gujarat was also attributable to SIR. Mr. Gandhi to understand public sentiment and establish direct contact with voters. He asked whether those outcomes, too, could be attributed to SIR. He thanked voters in Tripura, Rajasthan, Gujarat, West Bengal and Assam on the BJP’s behalf for expressing support for Mr. Modi, the party, and the NDA despite what he described as misinformation campaigns. Responding to Mr. But it is not going to happen.”
The Home Minister said the Congress had failed to win an election in Gujarat for 41 years, with its last victory in 1985, while it had not had a Chief Minister in Tripura for 33 years or in West Bengal for 54 years. Shah’s statement, Congress communication chief Jairam Ramesh said: “The co-architect of Vote Chori has, not surprisingly, ‘predicted’ the 2029 Lok Sabha election for which undoubtedly he has already begun the rigging process.
He said attempts were being made to undermine the popularity of the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi by linking the party’s electoral successes to the revision process. Shah said the Congress’s continued pursuit of “negative politics” would not benefit the party and urged Mr. He also accused the Congress of attempting to protect illegal infiltrators on the pretext of opposing SIR, saying people understood what he described as the party’s “strategy” and would no longer be misled by it. Referring to recent by-elections, he said the Congress had failed to win a seat in the contests he cited.
Mr. “Ever since Rahul Gandhi became the principal leader of the Congress, then its president, and now the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, the Congress has continued to lose elections. He needs to introspect,” Mr.
Shah said the Congress should recognise that the voice of the nation also resonated in farms, villages, remote hills, forests and along riverbanks, where the principal Opposition had “little or no reach”. He cited Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu as States where, according to him, voters had repeatedly rejected the Congress over several decades. Shah said.
