6 hours Ago By Apoorva Shukla
New Delhi: As Bharatiya Janata Party-led Mahayuti swept Maharashtra, while its hope were dashed in Jharkhand, all eyes turned to the exit polls. The majority of exit polls were right in predicting NDA's victory in Maharashtra even though none of them could predict the scale of the Mahayuti's win, but most of these surveys got the Jharkhand assembly elections wrong. However, this time Pradeep Gupta's Axis My India got it right.
This has gained spotlight as it comes after two of its predictions in the Lok Sabha and Haryana assembly elections were off the mark. Axis MyIndia, which had predicted 178-200 seats for the Mahayuti, 82-102 seats for the opposition MVA and 6-12 seats for others, came closest to the final results in Maharashtra. The Mahayuti won 235 of the 288 assembly seats, with the BJP securing 132 alone.
In Jharkhand, while all other exit polls had predicted a victory for the NDA, Axis MyIndia predicted that the Congress-JMM alliance would manage a tally of 49-59 seats, while the BJP-led NDA and three seats for others. The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-led alliance has won 56 seats in the 81-member Assembly, bettering its 2019 score. Pollster Pradeep Gupta had announced that his firm Axis My India will independently release exit poll results for Jharkhand and Maharashtra assembly elections.
Gupta said that the firm has doubled its on-ground deployment in Maharashtra and Jharkhand to eliminate any error in its exit poll surveys. He said that the decision was taken after analysing the errors in Lok Sabha and Haryana poll predictions. When Axis My India Missed Lok Sabha Poll Predictions Axis My India’s exit poll predicted 361-400 seats for the BJP-led alliance in the Lok Sabha elections, including 67 seats in Uttar Pradesh that sends 80 members to the Lower House of Parliament.
But the actual results showed the BJP getting 240 seats and missing the majority mark with Uttar Pradesh proving to be the biggest upset for the party with it winning just 33 seats. The 55-year-old pollster became the centre of a controversy when the opposition alleged that he deliberately predicted a clean sweep for the BJP to manipulate the stock market, which hit a record high after the exit polls were announced and crashed on the day of counting. Get Latest News Live on Times Now along with Breaking News and Top Headlines from Elections and around the world.
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