Amit Shah’s three-crore claim has one missing document
The Election Commission lists dead, shifted and duplicate electors. Delhi has not produced a matching list of three crore Bangladeshis.
The claim is large. The matching document is not.
Amit Shah used a Hyderabad campaign speech to attach the label “Bangladeshi infiltrators” to a three-crore electoral-roll figure. The Election Commission’s own published material, however, describes administrative categories such as dead, shifted and duplicate electors. It does not show that three crore people were confirmed foreign nationals.
According to a report on Shah’s November 2 speech at Mozamjahi Market, he said: “Three crore votes were those which never existed. These votes were those of Bangladeshi infiltrators.” The same report records him separately attributing 6.15 crore entries to people who had shifted residence, 2.8 crore to three crore to people who had died, and one crore to duplicate voters. Those figures remain Shah’s claims; the underlying dataset has not been produced in the material reviewed.
The Election Commission’s electoral-roll FAQ says revision involves identifying discrepancies and removing “multiple/shifted/dead electors”. It also says deletions require notice, an opportunity to object and a hearing. Its voter portal carries a section for SIR 2026, but the accessible material does not provide a national three-crore table, a category-wise breakdown or a nationality finding matching Shah’s speech.
The Union government’s broader description of SIR includes deleting names of dead and duplicate electors and “selectively deleting infiltrators”. That is a political description of the exercise, not proof that a specific three-crore group was verified as Bangladeshi. Delhi has produced the accusation, the arithmetic and the drama. The document doing the actual work is still missing.