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Exit Polls: Rahul Gandhi Claims It’s Modi Media Poll & INDIA Bloc Will Get 295 Seats

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New Delhi: A day after most exit polls predicted a third term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi with an overwhelming majority in Lok Sabha elections 2024, Congress termed it as “bogus” and a “deliberate attempt” to justify rigging the polls.

Rahul Gandhi went to the extent of calling the exit polls ‘Modi media poll’.

“This is not called an exit poll but its name is Modi media poll. This is Modi ji’s poll, it is his fantasy poll,” Rahul Gandhi told reporters at the AICC headquarters after a meeting with the party’s Lok Sabha MPs via video conference, reported PTI.

Asked how many seats INDIA bloc will get, Rahul said, “Have you heard Sidhu Moose Wala’s song ‘295’? So 295 seats.”

Votes for the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies as well as Odisha and Andhra Pradesh Assembly polls will be counted on June 4.

Also Read: BJD Dubs Exit Polls On Odisha Wrong, Confident Of 12 LS Seats & 3/4th Majority In Assembly; Know How BJP, Congress React

Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh hit out at the PM for holding several meetings, including a brainstorming session to review the 100-day agenda of the “new government.”

“These are mind games – ‘I am coming back, I am going to be the prime minister again’. He is sending a signal to the bureaucracy, the administrative structure of the country and we hope that the civil servants who have been entrusted with the responsibility of ensuing a fair counting of votes will not be intimidated or frightened by these pressure tactics,” Ramesh told PTI.

He added that Saturday’s exit polls are “completely bogus” and have been “orchestrated and masterminded by the man whose exit is inevitable and guaranteed on June 4.”

Ramesh, who claimed that Union Home minister Amit Shah called up 150 District Magistrates and collectors to intimidate them, has been asked by Election Commission of India to share factual details.

OB Bureau

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