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If one chooses to argue using this data that the BJP has been rejected,the question would be: Who has been chosen instead?The same report says,"the numbers were even worse in the case of the other major parties."It is interesting to see that the report mentions that the proportions of candidates who lost their deposits contesting on INC ticket stands at 75%. Thus, perhaps the Congressman who is responsible for the tweet above would do better to reflect on the performance of his own party? It is also important to note that the other two major political parties in the fray also fared much worse than the BJP.The percentage of candidates who lost their deposits from the SP and BSP stand at 54% and 66% respectively according to the report.indian political news This must be contrasted with the BJP’s figure of 45%. While this complete look at the data in the report shows the true picture, the Time of India article in question also needs to answer some questions.To begin with, the BJP’s percentage for deposit loss appears to be 45% and not "almost half" as the headline claims.Again,if this is the case and the other parties have fared much worse than the BJP in this regard, why is the headline singling out only one party and also making an incorrect and sensational claim about it?Thus,it appears that the headline is both factually incorrect and biased at the same time.Coming to the article itself, although the report begins in a rather negative tone — that contrary to perceptions of a landslide win for the, the number of seats where the party’s candidates lost their deposits was significantly higher than the number of seats it won — it does acknowledge a few important facts, but only in its later stages The percentage of BJP candidates who lost their deposits is, in fact, lower than those of all the other major political parties.The BJP had put up more candidates than any other partyAny comparison of vote-share percentages for the 2017 civic polls with the 2012 urban bodies polls is meaningless, since both the SP and the BSP did not contest the 2012 polls. (Actually, the two parties did not contest on their respective symbols.indian political newsThus,it appears that political activists,the commentariat and the media are not desisting from presenting, or misrepresenting, selective facts and data and then working their rhetorical spin on the same. Sometimes the exercise is so blatant that just a glance at the full data shows them up.