Hyderabad: Hours before pollsters release their Exit Polls to the Lok Sabha election 2024, Poll strategist Prashant Kishor has predicted that the saffron party would emerge victorious for a third straight term and that their numbers may go up. BJP alone won 303 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
On Saturday, 57 seats spread across seven states and the Union territory of Chandigarh went to polls in the seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha elections. Counting of the votes polled during the Lok Sabha Election 2024 will take place on June 4, to choose 542 representatives to the Parliament. Before the counting is complete, the Exit Polls have usually been used by the stakeholders to see which way the wind is blowing and to make their informed choices. Sometimes, these predictions have come a cropper, too. Yet, the pull the pollsters and poll managers enjoyed had never receded.
Prashant Kihsor was seen making this call, in a video interview with The Print, where he told the interviewee that the party's chances will not be dented by the west and south since they are going to win the north and east, the same way they did in 2019.
Kishor who had earlier worked with the saffron party also said that the right-wing party is increasing its vote share.
"To my mind, more or less BJP uh is going to come back with a similar or slightly better majority," he said.
"After meeting people from various states and journalists, obviously beyond, they would have their interest in who is going to win the Indian election, and in that context whatever little understanding we have, I have said that," he added.
Kishor said he had given a reason for his call. He said he never saw the BJP taking any "material hit" in terms of seats.
