The Congress is poised to win and win huge in Haryana, a state dominated by the BJP for the final decade, present six exit polls.
The exit polls don’t at all times get it proper. They’ve been manner off the mark prior to now. The newest instance being the 2024 Lok Sabha polls the place they went horribly off course.
Dainik Bhaskar predicts 44-54 seats for the Congress within the 90-member state meeting, an enormous soar from the 31 seats it gained the final time. The identical ballot offers BJP anyplace between 15-29, which is a giant slide from the 40 seats it gained within the 2019 polls.
The outcomes look like a impolite jolt to the BJP, which has been sustaining that there isn’t any anti-incumbency. The Congress had termed the BJP rule within the state as a “decade of ache”.
With the massive numbers, the main target predictably shifts to who would be the Congress’s Chief Ministerial alternative? Kumari Selja, a distinguished Dalit face of the occasion and a Chief Ministerial hopeful, just lately stated it has been a very long time since she has spoken to Bhupinder Hooda, one other huge face of the occasion and a former Chief Minister.
Within the run-up to the polls, Ms Selja, 62, commenting abut her probabilities, instructed EDNBOX that there are “at all times prospects within the nation”. However she amended that remark with “it’s the resolution of the excessive command solely after the elections”.
As we speak, as exit polls predicted an enormous win for the Congress the identical query was put to the 77-year-old Congress chief concerning the attainable names, Mr Hooda stated that is a name the “excessive command” would take.
One other ballot, Dhruv Analysis, offers Congress 50-60 seats, which is manner above the bulk mark of 46. It offers BJP anyplace between 22-32 seats.
Industrialist and BJP MP Naveen Jindal, who crossed over from the Congress simply earlier than the overall elections, as we speak arrived to vote using a horse, including it’s thought-about auspicious. Nevertheless, the exit polls predictions look like telling a distinct story.
“I got here right here using on a horse as it’s thought-about auspicious. My mom, Savitri Jindal, who’s contesting from Hisar, desires to do so much for Hisar. So the folks of Hisar will determine whom they need as consultant,” stated the MP.
India As we speak-C Voter predicts 50-58 seats for the Congress and 20-28 seats for the BJP.
Peoples Pulse reveals the Congress will win anyplace between 49-61 seats whereas it says the BJP might get solely 20-32 seats.
Days forward of the voting, the BJP had expelled eight rebels from the occasion for contesting as independents in opposition to Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini. The Congress too had been hit with dissension. The occasion expelled 13 leaders for “anti-party actions” over their resolution to contest the polls as unbiased candidates.
Yet one more exit ballot, Republic Bharat-Matrize predicts a whopping 55-62 for the Congress, whereas it predicts solely 18-24 seats for the BJP.
Jist-TIF Analysis predicts 45-53 seats for the Congress and 29-37 seats for the BJP.