Prime minister claims victory but opposition dismisses poll results as fixed and unscientific
Exit polls suggest the alliance led by Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, would do better than expected in the election.Exit polls suggest the alliance led by Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, would do better than expected in the election.’s Bharatiya Janata party -led alliance is projected to win a big majority in the general election that concluded on Saturday, TV exit polls said, suggesting it would do better than expected by most analysts.
In his first comments after voting ended, Modi claimed victory without referring to the exit polls. “I can say with confidence that the people of India have voted in record numbers to re-elect the NDA government,” he said on X, without providing evidence of his claim. The opportunistic India Alliance failed to strike a chord with the voters. They are casteist, communal and corrupt.”
The opposition dismissed the exit polls, and ahead of their publication had called them “prefixed”. Most opposition parties accuse India’s main news channels of being biased in favour of Modi, charges the channels deny. They also say exit polls in India are mostly unscientific. Modi began his reelection campaign by focusing on his achievements over the last 10 years but soon switched to mostly targeting the Congress by accusing it of favouring India’s minority Muslims, which the opposition party denies.
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