The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to return to power in Arunachal Pradesh, surpassing its previous record of 41 seats in 2019, as the party won 46 seats in the 60-member Assembly and secured a majority in the Assembly elections.
As exit poll predicted that the BJP-led NDA will gain a comfortable majority in the Lok Sabha elections, Power Minister RK Singh on Sunday exuded confidence that the BJP-led NDA will secure more seats than the exit polls predicted.
The ruling Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) has won 31 out of the 32 seats, while the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) has secured one in the Assembly elections.
RSP leader Shibu Baby John on Sunday questioned the predictions of the exit polls, saying that the BJP will get much fewer seats than what was predicted by these polls.
West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Sunday rejected the exit poll predictions about the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal and urged the party workers to stay strong and not be swayed by these deceptive tactics.
After exit poll predictions showed the BJP-led NDA gaining a comfortable majority in the Lok Sabha elections, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday called it a "corporate game" and said that the INDIA Alliance is going to form the government by winning 295-310 seats.
According to India Today-Axis My India exit polls, NDA is predicted to win 361-401 seats in the Lok Sabha polls. The INDIA bloc is expected to win 131-166 seats, it said and gave 8 to 20 seats to other parties.
The exit polls predicted that the ruling BJP-led NDA is poised to improve its performance over its 2019 record when it won 352 seats. Two polls predicted the BJP also improving its numbers from the 303 seats it won in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
BJP candidate from South Chennai Tamilisai Soundararajan on Sunday said that her party will get more Lok Sabha seats than the exit polls prediction, adding that the 'Dravidian model' of the DMK has failed in the state.