POLITICAL PARTIES REJECT EXIT POLL PREDICTIONS
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The Pioneer
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Indraprasth aka New Delhi - Major political parties today
rejected exit polls which gave the Congress-led coalition a
slender edge over NDA in the Lok Sabha elections.
Dismissing as unrealistic the projections of exit polls,
NDA Convenor Sharad Yadav said the BJP-led alliance would
get majority in the Lok Sabha.
"I have no faith in exit polls. The NDA will get majority
and we will form the government headed by L K Advani," he
said.
Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad too did not agree
with the exit poll projections and asserted that his party
will emerge as the single largest party with 166 seats.
The Left parties too refused to lap up the predictions
telecast by different news channels last night.
CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat dismissed the exit-
poll results, saying he did not believe in them.
CPI National Secretary D Raja termed exit polls as
"speculation" and said the actual situation will emerge
only after the results are out on Saturday. On exit polls
indicating poor performance by SP, its President Mulayam
Singh Yadav said he did not trust such surveys.
Terming exit polls as "politically inspired", SP leader
Amar Singh said they cannot decide on the fate of political
parties already sealed in EVMs.
He pointed out that during the last general elections, his
party was shown not as a big gainer. "But we managed 40
seats. Therefore, we do not go by the exit polls," he said.
Exit polls have shown NDA getting 185 to 196 seats in the
543-member House against 190 to 205 seats for UPA.
Projecting a highly-fractured verdict, the surveys have
placed the Third Front at a little over 100 seats.
Exit polls had been wide off the mark in 2004 Lok Sabha
polls, with most of them projecting BJP-led NDA as the
winner which did not turn out to be correct.
Ultimately, in 2004 elections the Congress and its pre-poll
allies got 216 seats against a projection ranging from 170
to 205 seats. The BJP-led NDA secured 187 seats against the
projections of over 240 to 250 seats.
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