Rahul Gandhi has mastered a curious political art: losing spectacularly and still claiming moral victory. Every time voters reject the Gandhi family’s claim to the throne, he emerges not with introspection but with allegations of “vote chori”.

This week in Parliament, he repeated the same tired line: that the government has supposedly changed the law to provide “immunity” to the Election Commission of India (EC), and that key institutional safeguards have been dismantled. In Gandhi’s worldview, if India doesn’t make him Prime Minister, democracy must surely be under attack.

On Tuesday in the Lower House, amid debate over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, Rahul Gandhi emphatically called “vote chori” the “biggest anti-national act.” He accused the EC of coll

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