Totally untrue: Priyanka Gandhi receives a notification from a Delhi court requesting a formal complaint against Sonia Gandhi about the inclusion of voter lists
Totally untrue: Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra responded to the Delhi Rouse Avenue Court’s summons to Congress MP Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday by asking whether there was any proof of the accusation. The allegations, she added, were wholly untrue.
“Do they have proof?” Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asked reporters outside Parliament. This is wholly untrue. Only after gaining citizenship did she cast a ballot. She is about to be 80 and has dedicated her whole life to serving the country, so I don’t see why they are attacking her. They ought to leave her alone at this age.
The development was also criticized by Congress MP Imran Masood, who said, “They create new dramas every day.” Her birthday is today, so at least feel a little embarrassed. Don’t overdo it. “Where are you leading this nation?”
A Delhi court earlier in the day agreed to consider a criminal revision plea contesting a decision that had refused to file a formal complaint against Sonia Gandhi, the chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party, on the grounds that her name was listed on the electoral roll in 1980, three years prior to her obtaining Indian citizenship.
Sonia Gandhi and the Delhi Police received notifications from Special Judge (PC Act) Vishal Gogne of the Rouse Avenue Courts after prominent counsel Pavan Narang argued that papers “must have been forged, fabricated and falsified” in order to put her name in the voter list.
On January 6, 2026, the court ordered that the modification plea be scheduled for a follow-up hearing.
Vikas Tripathi’s revision petition contested the September 11 ruling of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vaibhav Chaurasia, who had rejected his complaint to make a formal complaint on the purportedly incorrect inclusion of Sonia Gandhi’s name in the voter list.
According to Tripathi, even though Sonia Gandhi only became an Indian citizen in April 1983, her name was first included on the electoral roster for the New Delhi seat in 1980.
He claims that the name was removed in 1982 and then added again in 1983 after her citizenship.
He continued by saying that the 1980 inclusion would not have been possible without the use of fraudulent papers, which is a crime that may be prosecuted. The court cannot conduct an investigation that would “result in unwarranted transgression into fields expressly entrusted to the Constitutional authorities,” according to Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Chaurasia, who declined to order the police to file a formal complaint.
According to the magistrate, conducting such an investigation would violate Article 329 of the Constitution, which normally forbids courts from meddling in electoral registers and associated issues other than via petitions for elections.
Prior to this, Tripathi had said that the court should order the police to look into the alleged forgery and that it was electoral fraud from the start when a non-citizen was mistakenly added to the voter list.
The matter has been politically divisive, with BJP officials citing the Sonia Gandhi case as evidence of purported anomalies and accusing the Congress of voter list manipulation in the past. However, the Congress has rejected these allegations as unfounded and vindictive.