A strange disconnect between Bihar and Karnataka spells bad news for the state of India’s democracy, such as it is.

The Congress party is ramping up the campaign in Bihar elections, while Karnataka’s Congress government is cranking up the heat to prove elections are gamed. As the Mahagathbandhan opposition alliance in Bihar announced its chief ministerial face in Patna, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) zeroed in on people who attempted to delete Congress votes in Karnataka’s Aland Assembly segment during the 2023 state elections.

Launching the Congress’s signature campaign against “vote chori”, the state’s revenue minister, Krishna Byre Gowda, said the “Election Commission is working as a BJP subsidiary” in stealing elections. The Congress, and the rest of the opposition, is clearly un

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