Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Sunday trashed the result projections thrown up by exit polls for five states, terming such exercises as ‘fraud’, and predicted ‘astonishing’ gains for the Congress party in Uttar Pradesh.
Mr Singh questioned the reliability of the exit poll exercises and said he rejected them ‘101 per cent”. “Exit polls are fraud. How can you define the votes of 12 crore voters in such small sample sizes? Tell me which exit polls have been accurate in predicting results in the past,” he said while responding to questions
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He said as a person entrusted with the responsibility of AICC in the state of UP, he was ready for anything but added that according to his analysis, “the elections will throw up astonishing results for the Congress”.
Asked how many seats he expected the Congress to win, Mr Singh had earlier said “at least 100.” Asked what he thought of the exit polls’ prediction that the Samajwadi Party could even get an absolute majority on its own, Mr Singh said, “Impossible. I reject the exit polls 101 per cent, and I will talk on March 6. In fact, I will write to the broadcast authority to ask them that exit polls should explain their methodology and procedures properly,” he said.
Asked to comment on the fact that Mr Rahul Gandhi has been the face of the Congress in the campaign and that the results will also reflect on him, Mr Singh said, “Leadership only gives a face to a party and determines the direction in which the wind blows, but turning this into votes is largely the work of party workers”.
Asked about the possibility of post-poll alliances, he said his party had already made its stance clear on the issue.