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BJP savours exit poll projections, Congress, JD(U) dismiss it

New Delhi: Exit polls projections that the NDA would form the next governmment were savoured by BJP but dismissed by Congress and JD(U) which said parties should await the poll results on Friday, citing how


Omar also questioned the credibility of the opinion polls in view of the vast difference between two surveys in the number of Lok Sabha seats expected to be won by parties in a particular state.

Citing the example of Rajasthan, the Chief Minister wrote: “So one channel gives Cong only two (seats) in Rajasthan & another gives them 14. Did these channels cover the same election?”

With exit polls showing a poor performance by JD(U) in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar dismissed the projections and said the results should be waited for.  

“Yah to aap log bol rahe hai (you are saying this),” Kumar told reporters in Patna in reply to repeated questions on exit poll projections in Bihar.