India, Dec. 10 -- Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday delivered a 90-minute, point-by-point presentation of the government's stance on Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the Lok Sabha, triggering some of the session's most heated moments as he and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi sparred fiercely.

Gandhi interrupted him mid-speech to demand a direct debate on his "vote chori" allegations, and the Opposition later staged a walkout, but Shah continued, using the floor to mount his sharpest attack yet on the Congress' leadership and electoral claims in the Lok Sabha.

The home minister opened his address by accusing three generations of the Nehru-Gandhi family of what he termed "vote chori."

He said that post-In...