Lalu: Exit polls madmen’s work

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Even as the exit polls heralded the return of Nitish Kumar’s NDA government to power in Bihar and leaders of the JD(U) and the BJP grew more exuberant three days before votes are to be counted, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and his ally Ram Vilas Paswan of the LJP strongly dismissed the exit polls’ findings as inaccurate.
“Main government banaunga. Pakka main government banaunga,” (I am forming the government. Absolutely surely),” said Mr Yadav, the political arch rival of chief minister Mr Nitish Kumar, to reporters on Sunday. The RJD chief, who has earlier been Bihar’s chief minister twice and the nation’s railway minister once, described the exit poll findings as “dirty work” and the work of “some madmen”.
Looking very confident of the RJD-LJP’s comeback to power, Mr Yadav said: “This (the exit poll surveys and their dissemination) is dirty work. They should not have done so. We will form the government with a two-third majority”. On another occasion a few minutes later, he said: “This (surveys) was done to demoralise other people. Some TV channels showed them, though not all did. It was like some madmen were releasing the results. I have been in politics since 1977, and I understand the pulse of the people.”