New Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): Axis My India Chairman and Managing Director, Pradeep Gupta backed the exit poll predictions by the group, and said those doubting their credibility, should take a look at their previous track record.
He pointed out that the predictions by Axis My India were accurate 65 out of 69 times in the past.
Speaking to ANI, Pradeep Gupta said, “Axis My India has done Exit Polls continuously for the last 10 years. We have done that for 69 elections, including 2 Lok Sabha elections. Our predictions have been correct 65 times…and in these 65 times, every Opposition party including Congress has won one or the other time. As far as credibility is concerned, people who are raising questions should have a look at our track record, they will be satisfied.”
Reacting on Rahul Gandhi’s criticism of the exit polls, Axis My India Chairman said the Congress leader would be “happy” to know that the exit polls will prove to be correct once again.
“If Rahul Gandhi thinks that Axis My India exit poll is ‘Modi Poll’ then I am really satisfied…Results would come out on 4th June. I think Rahul Gandhi will be happy too to know that Axis My India will prove to be correct once again,” Gupta said.
Notably, all the exit polls have predicted BJP returning to power with a resounding majority, with further inroads in Odisha, West Bengal and southern states.
According to India Today-Axis My India exit polls, NDA is predicted to win 361-401 seats in the Lok Sabha polls. The INDIA bloc is expected to win 131-166 seats, it said and gave 8 to 20 seats to other parties.
Earlier on Sunday, the founder of C Voter, Yashwant Deshmukh also backed the exit poll predictions by different organisations and said there is “nothing surprising” as all previous surveys
He said that NDA is winning mainly because of Prime Minister Modi’s popularity and because it is having a strong lead in the states it is winning. He also pointed out that there is stiff competition in West Bengal and Maharashtra.
“NDA is winning primarily because PM Modi is popular and because there is a huge gap of vote share in different states wherever they are winning. Wherever the Opposition is winning, they are winning at a huge gap themselves, like Tamil Nadu, and Kerala. Two states are a good battleground- West Bengal and Maharashtra, there is a contest in each seat. Beyond these states, all the states are one-sided,” Deshmukh said.
“This has been our finding all along, almost the same kind of a tracker, same kind of Mood of the Nation…so there is nothing surprising in the exit poll. Whatever the tracker or the MOTN were saying before the elections, the exit polls are going in the same direction,” he added.
Reacting to Rahul Gandhi’s criticism terming the exit polls as “Modi fantasy poll”, the C Voter Founder asked when the exit polls predicted victory of Congress and other opposition parties in the past, whose fantasy polls were they.
“Politicians are free to say whatever they wish. They can say that they are fantasy polls of PM Modi but when our exit polls were showing that Congress is winning in Karnataka or Telangana or other INDI alliance partners in West Bengal, Delhi, Punjab, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, whenever we were saying that they are leading and they are winning, were we fantasy polls of Rahul Gandhi or Arvind Kejriwal or Mamata Banerjee or Stalin?” he further said.
The Lok Sabha elections for 543 seats of the lower house were held across seven phases. The counting of votes will take place tomorrow on June 4. (ANI)
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