This Sunday, the Opposition, led by Congress, plans a protest rally at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on the specious ground that the Election Commission deleted crores of eligible voters in the name of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

It is interesting how the Opposition keeps changing its goalposts regarding elections in India. It made a brouhaha over EVM tampering a few years ago, alleging that EVMs with a 99 per cent battery level gave victory to the Bharatiya Janata Party while those with a 60 or 70 per cent battery level went for Congress. The ECI took pains to respond to this ludicrous claim, stating that the battery of the control unit of the EVM has no correlation with the election outcome. The CEC explained that brand new, non-reusable alkaline batteries are inserted into the EVMs and sealed in the presence of the candidates’ polling agents.

Then Rahul Gandhi and his party began chanting “vote chori” — vote theft — without providing any valid proof. At a recent press conference, a journalist asked him “when and how” he realised that “vote chori” was happening. Rahul Gandhi’s answer was funny. “When I........

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