Amit Shah calling up DMs and collectors, engaging in brazen intimidation, alleges Congress

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said the home minister’s alleged actions showed ‘how desperate the BJP is’.

Amit Shah calling up DMs and collectors, engaging in brazen intimidation, alleges Congress

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Congress leader Jairam Ramesh alleged on Saturday that Union Home Minister Amit Shah has spoken to at least 150 district magistrates and collectors ahead of the Lok Sabha election results, and accused him of “blatant and brazen intimidation”.

Ramesh made the allegations on the day when polling ended for the seven-phase Lok Sabha election. The votes will be counted on June 4.

Voting for the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha elections concluded on Saturday in seven states and one Union territory.

“The outgoing Home Minister has been calling up DMs/Collectors,” the Rajya Sabha MP and former Union minister said in a post on X. “So far he has spoken to 150 of them. This is blatant and brazen intimidation, showing how desperate the BJP is.”

The Opposition leader said that the “will of the people shall prevail” and that the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance would be ousted from the government by the Indian...

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