After CSDS psephologist deletes X post, BJP accuses Congress of making ‘baseless claims’ on voter fraud

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday (August 19, 2025) accused the Congress of making “baseless” claims about ‘vote theft’ and targeting the Election Commission of India in “collusion” with a Delhi-based think tank.

This came after Sanjay Kumar, a psephologist and a professor with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), who had shared voter data from two Maharashtra Assembly seats related to last year’s State election in a post on X on Sunday (August 17, 2025), subsequently deleted his post on Tuesday (August 19, 2025), apologising for posting erroneous data.