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Senior leaders of AAP feel that the new party will do much better and most of the pollsters and media analyzers will be proved wrong when the actual results will be out.
“First of all, I don’t believe in surveys and exit polls. Our past experience shows that most of these surveys and exit polls have underestimated AAP’s performance because it’s a new party,” said Rajeshree Nagarsekar, spokeswoman and senior member of AAP.
She said that party has left no stone unturned in its campaign and gave the electorate a clean and sincere alternative. “I think the silent vote will be with us and we should do much better when the final tally emerges on counting day,” Nagarsekar hoped.
Many in the party questioned the emergence of exit polls when the Election Commission of India had banned such polls.
“When the ECI has banned conduct of exit polls, my question is how and when were these exit polls conducted,” asked Elvis Gomes, convener and chief ministerial candidate of AAP.
Questioning the veracity of such polls, Gomes accused the national media of working under pressure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
AAP’s Panaji candidate, Valmiki Naik said the exit polls numbers did not reflect the pulse of the people and could go horribly wrong.
“In 2013 Delhi elections, such exit polls gave us a mere six seats and when the actual results came we bagged 28 seats. We could spring a big surprise on counting day,” said Valmiki Naik.
According to AAP’s treasurer Rahul Mhambrey, the exit polls appeared confusing and it was more a media creation. “AAP in Goa may do better than what it did in Delhi in its first election in 2013.”
