BJP targets Cong’s ‘vote chori’ campaign after psephologist’s apology

Two days after he flagged significant voter additions and deletions in the Maharashtra Assembly election, psephologist Sanjay Kumar of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) has apologised and deleted the posts, triggering a massive political showdown.

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The BJP has accused the research body of putting out unverified data to feed the Congress’s “fake narrative”. The main Opposition has responded that it used CSDS data, but also corroborated its findings based on evidence collected separately.

In a surprise development, Sanjay Kumar deleted his tweets that alleged a sharp rise and fall in the number of voters in several Assembly constituencies in Maharashtra and apologised for the “error”.