YSR is King in Exit polls, Shock to TDP...
Exit polls conducted by different TV channels in the 5 phase Lok Sabha elections, which ended Wednesday, predicted Congress-led UPA a slight edge over the BJP-led NDA, with the Third Front and others lagging far behind. However, most exit polls have a reputation for going wrong. In 2004, they gave victory — wrongly, as it turned out — to the NDA. Counting of votes will begin on Saturday morning. With exit polls predicting that the Congress was aehad. TD leaders were upset as the channels rolled out their exit poll results, and refused comment. The BJP claimed it had made its own exit poll, which gave it 166 Lok Sabha and its NDA allies 51, totalling 217. The CNN-IBN poll predicted 185-205 seats for the Congress and its allies and between 165-185 for the NDA. The projection for the Third Front was between 110 to 130 seats. The Congress has gained over the divided Op-position in the state if you believe the exit polls put out by national TV channels. If you were tuned to local channels, you would think that the Congress had lost. The only exception was the channel Sakshi, run by Mr Jaganmohan Reddy, son of the Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, which foresees a sweep for the Congress. But the channel left out 25 seats, saying they were too close to call. That perhaps defines the nature of this election.The exit polls show that there was anti-incumbency, but Chiranjeevi’s Praja Rajayam saved the Congress by dividing the sentiment with the TD.
