CHENNAI: After India Today editor Rajdeep Sardesai’s tweet, Many others too have raised doubts over the exit polls and questioned all the associated excitement. “Interesting exit poll coverage. My own take, pollsters I think may well have got one state wrong. Let’s see which one,” tweeted Bhupendra Chaubey of CNN-News18 past midnight and shortly later, added: “Assam, WB trends are clear. But what about Tamil Nadu. No one has a clue. Was it an issue less election? #PollOfPolls2016.”
Recalling that the DMK had polled around 24 per cent in 2014 with its ally Congress getting a little under five per cent, poll analyst Dr Sumanth C Raman wonders from where this alliance would get the huge ten-plus swing to catapult it over the rival AIADMK.
“Was there a perceptible anti-incumbency mood?” he told DC. DMK supporters retort saying that the 10 per cent swing in favour of their party is not impossible since this is a state election whereas 2014 was for the Lok Sabha.
“People went to the booths on Monday with the option of choosing Kalaignar as CM whereas the Parliament poll was for electing the PM”, argued DMK spokesperson TKS Elangovan, former MP. Many look at the exit polls as “timepass” rather than any serious exercise.
