“I would like to say that the state government in MP is a minority government. It is an unstable government. People are not having trust in this government. The Congress party is facing in-fighting,” he told ANI.
He, however, said that right now the priority of his government was to form the government at the Centre. “BJP will win 26 of 29 Lok Sabha seats in the state,” he said.
“Right now the focus is on forming the Central government but we must say the Congress government is not going to last long,” he said.
Earlier, BJP MLA and Leader of Opposition Gopal Bhargava said that Chief Minister Nath led Congress government in the state would fall on its own.
“You can yourself analyse the current situation. They have the support of one SP MLA, one MLA of BSP and four Independent MLAs. There is a lot of bickering within the party,” he said while talking to ANI.
“For some, the Congress government is of two and a half CMs; for some three CMs and for others of 3.5 CMs. There is widespread anarchy in the state under the current dispensation,” said Bhargava.
“This government will fall on its own. I don’t believe in horse-trading but I feel the government’s time has come. It will have to go soon,” he said.
He also spoke about the leadership crisis in the Congress.
“You can see the Congress has a leadership crisis as well. This is the main reason for the Congress’ decline. We are winning in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh just after six months that we lost in the Assembly polls, all because of the Congress’ false promises and faulty policies,” he said.
It is worth mentioning the BJP has written to Governor Anandiben Patel to call a special session of the Assembly “keeping in mind the people’s aspirations and other current issues” the state is faced with.
The 231-member MP Assembly has 113 Congress members and 109 BJP members. The ruling coalition is led by the Congress party, supported by two MLAs of SP-BSP, and four Independent MLAs. (ANI)
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The leaders asserted that Exit Polls will prove wrong and results would be contrary to what they claim, raising doubts on the accuracy and reliability of Exit Polls.
However BJP and allies welcomed the projections and mocked the rivals stating that they were “daydreaming” of the election results.
DMK president MK Stalin, whose party has been projected to do well in the Lok Sabha elections as well as the 22 Assembly by elections in Tamil Nadu, said that his party was not bothered about the Exit Poll results and did not accept them. He is waiting for the “actual verdict” on May 23, the day when the results will be announced.
“We don’t accept exit polls. People’s verdict will be known in three days. We are waiting and we are not bothered about exit poll results be it positive or negative,” said Stalin.
Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy alleged that “artificially engineered or manufactured Modi wave” by the Exit Polls is being used by the BJP to lure regional parties well in advance to fill any shortfall after the results on May 23.
“Exit polls are being used to create an impression that there is still a Modi wave in the country. This artificially engineered or manufactured Modi wave is being used by the BJP to lure regional parties well in advance to fill any shortfall after the results on May 23,” tweeted HD Kumaraswamy.
In his subsequent tweet, Kumaraswamy said, “The entire exit poll exercise was an effort to create a false impression of a wave in favour of one particular leader and the party. As they say, it is just an exit poll, not an exact poll.”
Earlier he had said: “Entire Opposition political parties had expressed concern over the credibility of EVMs under PM @narendramodi’s rule. Opposition parties even knocked the doors of the Supre Court asking for a traditional ballot paper elections to avoid defective EVMs that are vulnerable to fraud.”
The Karnataka leader said worldwide even developed countries have opted for traditional polls through paper ballots. “The exit poll surveys on May 19 only reiterated the serious concern of the Opposition parties on misuse of vulnerable EVMs for electoral gains by the ruling party,” he said.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that Exit polls “have gone wrong” in the past and expressed confidence that CPI(M) will register a big win in Kerala.
“We are getting close to the result date. Let’s not speculate on the numbers. Many Exit polls have gone wrong in the past. In 2004, many polls projected a second term for NDA but when the result for came it was a different story. So now let’s not speculate, we can wait till 23rd. There is no concern about our performance in Kerala. We are going to win big,” said Vijayan.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said he is “1000 per cent confident” that TDP will win the elections in the state.
“I am 1,000 per cent confident that TDP will win the elections. I do not have even 0.1 per cent doubt. We are going to win,” he told a press conference here.
Naidu on Sunday said that Exit Polls have failed to catch the people’s pulse. “Time and again Exit Polls have failed to catch the people’s pulse. Exit polls have proved to be incorrect and far from ground reality in many instances. While undoubtedly TDP government will be formed in AP, we are confident that non-BJP parties will form a non-BJP government at the Centre,” tweeted Naidu.
Simultaneous elections to the 175-member strong Assembly and 25 Lok Sabha seats across Andhra Pradesh were held on April 11. Counting of votes will begin on May 23.
Congress leader Shatrughan Sinha claimed that the Exit Polls is a means to divert attention and BJP’s defeat is imminent.
“This is to divert attention. They have not given any sample size and the agencies which have done surveys. They have started a new game to divert attention and timepass because their defeat is imminent,” said Sinha who is seeking re-election from Patna Sahib constituency.
“Most of the channels on which exit polls have been shown are famous for ‘Raag Darbari’. They sing a song for the government from the beginning. They have no credibility”, said Sinha.
“The exit polls (showing BJP win) has been carried out intentionally so that people will not think that there is some problem in EVM. This can be to boost the stock market. I see no reality in this,” he said.
SP leader Azam Khan took jibe and said that Exit Polls can even give more than 600 seats to BJP.
“What difference does it make if they show more than 600 seats to BJP. People are afraid that if those who are incumbent if returns to power what will happen. This is a blot on democracy,” said Azam Khan.
On the other hand, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley expressed confidence on the Exit Polls asserting that when multiple Exit Polls convey the same message, the direction of the results would be in consonance with the message.
“Many of us may continue to squabble over correctness and accuracy of the Exit Polls. The hard reality is that when multiple Exit Polls convey the same message, the direction of the result broadly would be in consonance with the message. Exit Polls are based on personal interviews. The EVMs have no role. If the results of the Exit Polls and final results on May 23, 2019 are in the same direction, the Opposition’s fake issue of the EVMs would also lose its non-existent rationale,” wrote Jaitley in his blog.
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ABP-Nielsen was the only poll that said NDA would fall short of a clear majority.
Meanwhile, about 61% polling was recorded in the seventh and the last phase of the Lok Sabha election that were held in 59 Lok Sabha constituencies on Sunday across eight States, including Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Bihar and Chandigarh. There were incidents of alleged EVM rigging and poll-related violence in West Bengal.
Among the prominent seat went to poll on Sunday will decide the outcome of prominent candidates like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, and Shatrughan Sinha and Manish Tewari of the Congress.
Many exit polls predicted that SP-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh would trump the BJP in the politically most crucial State, which had sent 71 seats for the saffron party in 2014 general elections. The alliance may not be able to win 40 seats in Uttar Pradesh, several polls predicted. However, there have been other states where the party seems to have made fresh inroads to fill up the deficit, the exit poll results showed.
In fact a poll of polls conducted by NDTV news channel indicated that the BJP would make up for its losses in Uttar Pradesh with a surge in Odisha and West Bengal. The Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav combination would get, according the average prediction, 29 seats while the Congress is set to do no better than it did in 2014 with just two seats.
In Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress will get 26 of 42 seats and the BJP will move to double digits at 14 while in Orissa the BJP will be equally positioned against Naveen Patnaik’s BJD which is an improvement for it as it won just one of the state’s 21 seats in 2014.
The gains in the two states will offset what the BJP is predicted to lose in Uttar Pradesh, it is said.
The BJP leaders were quick to express satisfaction with the predictions. “The exit polls results are according to our expectations,” BJP national vice president Vinay Sahasrabudhe said. “The grand alliance experiment has failed. The BSP and SP could not take our votes. The main opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh are divided thin, whose benefits the BJP got.”
Congress leader Ashwini Kumar said: “I hope for my party’s sake these exit polls aren’t true.” Mr Kumar is true as on several occasions the Exit poll have gone misearbly wrong in predicting the true outcome of the elections.
The results will be declared on Thursday, May 23.
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Naidu, who has met Sonia Gandhi during the days of the United Front government in 1996, drove to her residence for the meeting. Nothing was disclosed about what they discussed but it is understood that the two leaders went over the options before non-BJP parties in the post-poll scenario.
Earlier in the day the TDP chief also met Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar and CPI (M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury.
He had also met Pawar yesterday as well as Rahul Gandhi in Delhi and grand alliance leaders BSP chief Mayawati and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow.
“It is a pleasure to welcome Hon”ble Chief Minister Shri N Chandrababu Naidu Ji to Lucknow,” Akhilesh Yadav tweeted after the meeting.
Naidu also met NCP chief Sharad Pawar, CPI leader Sudhakar Reddy, and Loktantrik Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav. Last night, he had met Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Sonia Gandhi has also invited leaders of the UPA and sounded some others including Odisha and Telangana chief ministers Naveen Pattnaik and K Chandrasekhar Rao respectively as well as YSR Congress party chief Jaganmohan Reddy for the meeting on May 23, when the results will be out.
She has also convened a meeting of party leaders on May 22, for preparations for the Thursday meeting.
(ANI)
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