NEW DELHI: The BJP appears to be on course to make a total 4-0 sweep of the latest round of elections to the legislative assemblies of the four states of Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, if exit poll results released on Wednesday are to be believed.
These polls, which involve interviews with voters as they emerge from polling booths, show the BJP wresting Rajasthan away from the Congress, holding on to Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and emerging as the single larges party in Delhi.
We feel that the large percentage of polling among youth and women especially were due to his emphasis on it and we expect this role to grow as general elections approach," said spokesman Prakash Javadekar.
In Delhi, which was the last of the four states to go to polls and where voting was extended till 7.15 pm on Wednesday amid unprecedentedly high voter turnout, the jury was still out with none of the pollsters committing on just who would form the government.
While all polls gave the highest number of seats to BJP, the debutant Aam Aadmi Party ( AAP) led by Arvind Kejriwal was being credited with winning anywhere between six and 18 seats, an unusual feat for a new political party. One exit poll — the Headlines Today poll conducted by ORG — gave BJP 41 seats in the 70-member assembly while most others gave it 30-40 seats.
But Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who put up an almost lonely battle at times, dismissed the polls. "Every time it is the same thing, you always underestimate Congress and we are voted in by the people. I will wait till the (December) 8th to comment," said the three-time chief minister. In the 2004 and 2009 general elections, most pollsters failed to see the Congress victory.
While Congress was dismissive, BJP made little effort to hide sounding triumphant. "This is as per our expectations. We always said that both our chief ministers would return, and in Rajasthan and Delhi it will be a homecoming after a gap. The party and workers put in efforts and the icing on the cake was Narendra Modi. We feel that the large percentage of polling among youth and women especially were due to his emphasis on it and we expect this role to grow as general elections approach," said spokesman Prakash Javadekar.
In Chhattisgarh, where the race was considered to be tight one and BJP appeared shaky after the first round of polling in Bastar, all four exit polls showed its Chief Minister Raman Singh forming the government again. The only exit poll which showed him two seats shy of the magic number of 46 in the 90-member Chhattisgarh Assembly was the India TV-C Voter poll.
Source: Economic Times
These polls, which involve interviews with voters as they emerge from polling booths, show the BJP wresting Rajasthan away from the Congress, holding on to Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and emerging as the single larges party in Delhi.
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If confirmed by actual results on Sunday, an emphatic victory of such a scale will give the main opposition party strong momentum going into the 2014 elections and will be a major shot in the arm for its PM candidate Modi, who had campaigned extensively. For the Congress, it could trigger a hard look at its strategy and increase the pressure on it to resort to course corrections. "If the exit polls are showing 4-0 in favour of BJP, it's clearly a victory for Modi," said political analyst Dipankar Gupta. While the Congress was dismissive, the BJP made little effort to hide sounding triumphant. "This is as per our expectations. The party and workers put in effort and the icing on the cake was Modi. |
We feel that the large percentage of polling among youth and women especially were due to his emphasis on it and we expect this role to grow as general elections approach," said spokesman Prakash Javadekar.
In Delhi, which was the last of the four states to go to polls and where voting was extended till 7.15 pm on Wednesday amid unprecedentedly high voter turnout, the jury was still out with none of the pollsters committing on just who would form the government.
While all polls gave the highest number of seats to BJP, the debutant Aam Aadmi Party ( AAP) led by Arvind Kejriwal was being credited with winning anywhere between six and 18 seats, an unusual feat for a new political party. One exit poll — the Headlines Today poll conducted by ORG — gave BJP 41 seats in the 70-member assembly while most others gave it 30-40 seats.
But Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who put up an almost lonely battle at times, dismissed the polls. "Every time it is the same thing, you always underestimate Congress and we are voted in by the people. I will wait till the (December) 8th to comment," said the three-time chief minister. In the 2004 and 2009 general elections, most pollsters failed to see the Congress victory.
While Congress was dismissive, BJP made little effort to hide sounding triumphant. "This is as per our expectations. We always said that both our chief ministers would return, and in Rajasthan and Delhi it will be a homecoming after a gap. The party and workers put in efforts and the icing on the cake was Narendra Modi. We feel that the large percentage of polling among youth and women especially were due to his emphasis on it and we expect this role to grow as general elections approach," said spokesman Prakash Javadekar.
In Chhattisgarh, where the race was considered to be tight one and BJP appeared shaky after the first round of polling in Bastar, all four exit polls showed its Chief Minister Raman Singh forming the government again. The only exit poll which showed him two seats shy of the magic number of 46 in the 90-member Chhattisgarh Assembly was the India TV-C Voter poll.
Source: Economic Times
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