Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav on Monday said that exit polls are nothing but an attempt to demoralise the workers of the INDIA alliance and SP.
A day before the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha elections, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav offered prayers at Bhalka Tirth temple in Somnath on Monday. He wished that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would retain power and BJP would form the government again.
The stock market reached an all-time high after exit polls forecast a decisive victory for the BJP-led NDA coalition, sparking widespread investor optimism on Monday.
"The result of the election will come from 'counting of votes', not from 'counting of thoughts'! 'Mann ki Baat' (one's thoughts) does not apply to elections, only 'Jan ki Baat' works. When the public is aware and vigilant, no one can do as he pleases," Yadav said in a post on 'X'.
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.
Recounting the attack on him by the "RJD workers", on the day of seventh phase of Lok Sabha polling in Bihar, BJP leader Ram Kripal Yadav said that three to four shots were fired at his covoy on the Patna-Jehanabad road.
The convoy of BJP candidate from the Patliputra Lok Sabha seat in Bihar, Ram Kripal Yadav, was attacked in Patna and a party worker was injured by unidentified assailants after voting concluded on Saturday, police said.
RJD spokesperson Shakti Singh Yadav on Saturday questioned the credibility of recent exit polls, alleging that the surveys were conducted without an on-ground presence in rural areas and reports were created in AC rooms.
India will start their T20 World Cup campaign on June 5 against Ireland at the newly constructed Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York.
Rashriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and former deputy chief minister of Bihar, Tejashwi Yadav, exuded confidence in the victory of the INDIA bloc winning over 295 seats in the Lok Sabha elections and said the Bharatiya Janata party's "400 Paar" film was a flop in the first round of voting.