While some have started misreading election data to claim ‘vote chori’ after the phenomenal win of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the Bihar elections, CNN-NEWS18 did a reality check of the data to get the true poll picture.

First and foremost, the Congress claims ‘Vote Chori’ and says lakhs of people were wrongly removed from the electoral rolls through the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. But the fact is that more people cast their votes in Bihar this time than the last elections.

As per official data, while 4.21 crore voters had cast their votes in 2020, slightly over 5 crore voters cast their vote this time. The exact numbers are 4,21,42,828 votes cast in 2020, compared to 5,00,29,879 votes cast this time. That means nearly 20% more voters tu

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