WB Lok Sabha Opinion Polls Result 2024 Live Updates: In 2019, the exit polls results had shown a neck-to-neck fight between for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal. The BJP made clear inroads in Bengal by winning 18 seats, coming close after AITC that clinched 22 seats.
West Bengal Lok Sabha Election Exit Poll Result Live: With the final phase of the Lok Sabha elections over now, two pollsters have predicted that the BJP will halt the Trinamool Congress’s dominance in West Bengal. Republic Bharat-Matrize estimated 21-25 seats for BJP and 16-21 seats for Trinamool Congress. According to India News – D Dynamics, the saffron party is set to win 21 seats, with TMC close behind with 19 seats.
How accurate were the 2019 exit polls for Bengal? In 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP made clear inroads in Bengal by winning 18 seats, coming close after Trinamool Congress (TMC) that clinched 22 seats. Congress meanwhile got only 2 seats. The pollsters’ predictions were not much different: the exit polls results had shown a neck-to-neck fight between for the saffron party and the TMC, with the BJP expected to win 19 to 23 seats and the Trinamool 19 to 22 seats.
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Which parties in fray? In a state, with a government roiled in multiple scams and corruption allegations, all eyes are on whether Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s TMC can still sail through with maximum number of seats or get washed away in the BJP wave. Having rejected the INDIA bloc before the Lok Sabha polls, as well as any seat-sharing adjustment with the Left Front and Congress, TMC supremo Banerjee had later declared her party would provide “outside support” to the Opposition alliance in case it manages to form a government at the Centre.
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West Bengal Lok Sabha Election Exit Poll Results 2024 Live Updates: n 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP made clear inroads in Bengal by winning 18 seats, coming close after AITC that clinched 22 seats. Congress meanwhile got only 2 seats.
While there are the positives, such as the TMC’s marquee ‘Lakshmir Bhandar’ scheme – involving Rs 1,000 to 1,200 monthly payments to women above 25 years of age in the state – which has all-round support, the shadow of corruption permeates all aspects of the TMC government, which has been hit by a series of embarrassing scandals. The party has dubbed them witch-hunting by the Centre.
While it is a Lok Sabha election, the burden of incumbency is on Mamata’s Trinamool Congress government in the state – and not Modi’s at the Centre.
Banerjee criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan to meditate at Kanniyakumari’s Vivekananda Rock Memorial amid the Lok Sabha polls and said her TMC will complain to the Election Commission if the meditation is telecast.
“Does anybody who meditates do it in front of a camera? He basically wants to show his meditation to people. The place is good. Swami Vivekananda loved this place. He (Modi) will meditate there. He says he is God. Why should he meditate then…?” Banerjee said at Baruipur in the Jadavpur constituency while campaigning for the last phase of the elections, scheduled for June 1.
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First uploaded on: 01-06-2024 at 16:49 IST
