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On Thursday, 23 May, Election Commission’s trends predicted a landslide victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Four days prior, exit polls from various pollsters predicted a massive mandate for the Narendra Modi-led government.
At a panel on India Today news channel, Axis My India’s Chairman Pradeep Gupta broke down after the leads proved to be in tandem with what the exit polls had predicted on 19 May.
In a video tweeted by anchor Rahul Kanwal, psephologist Pradeep Gupta can be seen getting emotional. Kanwal said: “An emotional moment for Axis My India Psephologist @PradeepGuptaAMI as the pressure releases while his predictions stand vindicated #ResultsOnIndiaToday #ElectionResults2019” (sic).
In the video, Rahul Kanwal can be heard saying,
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Published: 23 May 2019,09:30 PM IST