It is hard to imagine the Election Commission of India upholding the Congress’s complaint that electronic voting machines were manipulated in the Haryana Assembly election. In such a scenario, the grand old party will have three options: One, take recourse to the dilatory process of petitioning the judiciary for redressing its grievances. Two, mobilise the public for altering the electronic voting system to quell doubts that it can be gamed. Three, apologise for eroding the nation’s faith in the EVM.

For the Congress not to exercise any of the three options, particularly the last two, would mean its participation in future elections would legitimise the voting system in which it has little faith. It would, at worst, be an example of amoral politics and, at best, epitomise the party’s incapacity to fight for causes it 
considers worthy.