The Congress and Sharad Pawar-led NCP on Saturday rejected the outcome of the exit polls on the grounds that it was unrealistic.
“We are sure the INDIA bloc will win at least 300 seats at the national level and more than 30 seats in Maharashtra. I have seen the exit polls by certain agencies, it appears that most of them are unrealistic and unacceptable. People of Maharashtra have faith in MVA leaders, and under such circumstances, we expect that the MVA will cross the 30 mark in Maharashtra,” Patole told TOI.
NCP (SP) spokesperson Mahesh Tapase too said that his party was rejecting the exit polls. “It appears that the exit polls are unrealistic as we are expecting that the MVA will win at least 35 seats in Maharashtra,” he said.
Tapase said that during the entire campaign, it was found that there was discontent over the performance of Prime Miniater Narendra Modi as well as the Eknath Shinde government. “People of Maharashtra have expressed faith in the leadership of MVA leaders, particularly Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray. Under such circumstances, we are sure the MVA will cross the mark of 35 seats,” Tapase said.
There had been a lot of focus on Maharashtra in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections and during the election campaign itself in view of the split in two major regional parties, the Shiv Sena and the NCP.
While Sena split in 2022 with Eknath Shinde rebelling against the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray with 40 legislators, the Ajit Pawar-led NCP joined the Shinde-Fadnavis govt last year with Ajit getting sworn in as deputy chief minister. The EC has give n the Sena party name and election symbol to CM Eknath Shinde’s Sena and the NCP name and symbol has been given to Ajit Pawar.
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