New Delhi: A Sunnytavali affiliated to Lokniti-CSDS, Sanjay Kumar on Tuesday apologized for his post on Maharashtra elections, claiming a significant dip in two assembly constituencies a few months ago in two assembly constituencies compared to the Lok Sabha elections.“I apologize honestly for tweets posted about Maharashtra elections. Comparing data from 2024 LS and 2024. Error occurred. The data in Row was wrong by our data team. The tweet has been removed. The tweet has been removed. I had no intention of spreading any form of misunderstanding in any form,”
Sanjay Kumar’s waiver triggered a large -scale backlash from the ruling BJP, which dismissed that it was an “honest error”.BJP IT chief Amit Malviya wrote: Forgiveness is, and Sanjay Kumar is outside. Incidentally, when the last time this proteg of Yogendra Yadav got something right? In all its estimates in the run-up for each election, the BJP is considered-and when the reverse is, it turns on TV how the BJP won. convenient. They feel that TV audience is foolish. ,Malavia wrote on X, “In its extreme excitement to feed the fake Congress fake Congress on Maharashtra, CSD placed data without verification. This is not analysis – this is confirmation prejudice.”
What was the claim?
In his post so far on Maharashtra elections, Sanjay Kumar claimed that the number of voters in the assembly constituency 59 (Ramtek) in 2024 was 4,66,203 in the Lok Sabha elections and 2,86,931 in the assembly elections, claiming “-38.45% reduction”.In his second claim, Kumar had said that the number of voters in the Lok Sabha in the Assembly Constituency (Deoli) was 4,56,072, and during the assembly elections it decreased by 2,88,141, claiming that “a reduction of 36.82%”.Putting his attack on Sanjay Kumar, Amit Mavalia further wrote: “A lot of institution whose data Rahul Gandhi has now bended to discredit the voters of Maharashtra and now admitted that its figures were wrong – not only on Maharashtra, but also on the head.”
Apology between Election Commission and India
The faceoff between the India Block and the Election Commission of India (ECI) intensified dramatically on August 7 when Rahul Gandhi fled through a presentation and made a “vote thief” against the pole body in the Mahadevpura assembly constituency of Congress-Congress Karnataka. The opposition also mentioned Kumar’s Maharashtra data to attack the pole body and BJP.Rahul Gandhi on Sunday called the ECI’s special intensive amendment in the poll-bound Bihar as a “conspiracy to steal” in the upcoming assembly elections.On the same day, ECI hit Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders back, dismissed their allegations of vote theft and concerns related to Sir in Bihar as “misleading”. Chief Election Commissioner Gyanash Kumar said, “It is an insult to the Constitution to use words like vote chori to mislead people.” Addressing a press conference, the CEC unfounded the allegations of double voting and “vote theft” and said that all the stakeholders are working to make Bihar a special intensive amendment (SIR) of the electoral role in a transparent manner.The CEC said that Rahul Gandhi should either sworn in allegations of irregularities in the voter list within seven days. He said, “If no announcement is made under the oath within 7 days, the claims will be considered as baseless and invalid …” he said that those who make baseless allegations should apologize to the nation.India block for impeachment to CEC?Amidst the ongoing EC-operation Clash, the India Block on Monday raised the possibility of the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanash Kumar to move forward for impeachment, which it accused of acting like a “BJP spokesperson” and intimidating opposition parties. It said that the Election Commission is no longer able to ensure a level playground and is instead, led by the authorities who fail any attempt to investigate the voters fraud. While the proposal to transfer Kumar to remove the removal was briefly discussed in a coordination meeting of the opposition parties and it is not final, the India block chose to confirm it to increase it that the information of impeachment was churned by the Allies and attracted a widespread consent.
