𝐑𝐞𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚, 𝐑𝐚𝐡𝐮𝐥 𝐆𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐢 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐌𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝 Congress workers are on the streets shouting “vote chori” against SIR. Their leader, meanwhile, is on a quiet flight to Hanoi, with no word to his workers and none to the country. India celebrates Navratri. Rahul Gandhi celebrates another vacation. Clearly, SIR was never a fight for him. It was a photo-op. A leader who truly believed votes were being stolen would have stayed. Rahul Gandhi’s commitment lasted exactly as long as the cameras did. Even his outrage is selective. In Kerala, his own MLA admitted that SIR helped the Congress-led front win by weeding out fake voters. So for Rahul Gandhi, SIR is “vote chori” only where the Congress loses. His timing is remarkable, and remarkably consistent. In 2015, he vanished for 56 days in the middle of the Budget session. In December 2024, he flew to Vietnam for New Year while the nation mourned Dr Manmohan Singh ji. In December 2025, he left for Germany with Parliament still in session. Now it is Hanoi, again. His passport has seen more of his politics than Rae Bareli has. The reason is simple. Rahul Gandhi has lost the trust of the people of India: three Lok Sabha defeats in a row, and 99 election losses in all, one short of a century. Rejected at home, he goes abroad to find India’s critics, mobilise anti-India voices and collect the applause India’s voters refuse to give him. For years, Rahul Gandhi has used foreign soil to stir unrest in India. In London, he told a foreign audience that the BJP had spread kerosene across the country and that one spark could cause big trouble. Every trip since has been an attempt to strike that spark: telling Sikhs abroad their turbans were at stake, telling voters their Election Commission was “compromised”, telling the world India’s democracy was under attack. He wants India to burn so his politics can survive. The real problem is vote doori: the growing distance between Rahul Gandhi and the people who vote. He has time for Hanoi, Berlin and Bogotá. For Telangana, which gave his party a government, he has only photo-ops and promises. The six guarantees were made in his presence, and the people of Telangana are still waiting for them. The Telangana government is in the same mood: party first, people later. Farmers are struggling with power supply. Families are paying festival-hiked bus fares to go home for Bathukamma and Dussehra. And the Chief Minister was in Delhi, joining Rahul Gandhi’s SIR drama. Like leader, like government. Telangana deserves a government that stays with its people, not one that follows its leader’s itinerary. From Hanoi to Hyderabad, the Congress follows one rule: party first, people later. The voters he keeps losing live in India, not in Hanoi, and no applause from abroad will win them back. @narendramodi @BJP4India @NitinNabin @blsanthosh