India, Aug. 19 -- Squaring off against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for levelling allegations of vote theft against the Election Commission of India, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday cited the apology by CSDS's Sanjay Kumar for error in data presented in his X post, what the BJP said was used by the Lok Sabha LoP to claim voting fraud in Maharashtra elections.

Political analyst and psephologist Sanjay Kumar on Tuesday apologised for his post on Maharashtra elections, which reported a considerable fall in voter numbers in two assembly seats compared to the recent Lok Sabha elections.

He said an error occurred while comparing 2024 Lok Sabha and assembly election data, attributing it to a misread row by the data team.

In a pres...