Amit Shah's '160 seats in Bihar' claim is code for 'vote chori', says Congress

With Union Home Minister Amit Shah urging people to ensure NDA victory in more than 160 seats in Bihar, the Congress on Monday said he is hoping that “VC (vote chori) plus VR (vote revdi)” will bring about this outcome.

It asserted that the politically conscious people of Bihar will defeat these “machinations”.

In a post on X, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh accused Amit Shah of openly hinting at “vote chori” in Bihar, claiming the Home Minister had already revealed the NDA’s intended seat tally in the state.

Ramesh said that in education, “VC” stands for Vice Chancellor; in world of start-ups, VC stands for Venture Capital, and in the military, VC is Vir Chakra. “But now there is a new kind of VC that is defining our politics -- vote chori (vote theft),” he wrote.

He alleged that the ruling party was banking not just on “vote chori (VC)” but also on “vote revdi (VR)” to engineer the outcome in Bihar.

In education, VC stands for Vice Chancellor.

In the world of start-ups, VC stands for Venture Capital.

In the military, VC is Vir Chakra.

But now we have a new kind of VC that is defining our politics. Vote Chori.

And the sutradhar has already unveiled the target for VC in…

— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) September 29, 2025

“The politically most conscious people of Bihar will defeat these machinations. It will be the Mahagatbandhan in Bihar. And the first place the tremor will be felt is in New Delhi,” the Congress leader asserted.

On Saturday, while addressing the Mandal Karyakarta Sammelan in Bihar’s Araria, Amit Shah took aim at the INDIA bloc, declaring that the upcoming polls were centred on removing “infiltrators” from the state.

Shah urged voters to deliver a victory on more than 160 of the 243 Assembly seats, assuring that the BJP would not allow infiltrators to remain on the sacred soil of Bihar.