Unfazed by the prediction of the Trinamul Congress-Congress alliance’s sweeping victory, Left Front chairman Biman Bose on Tuesday dismissed the exit poll results as “bogus”. Referring to the exit poll results of the Assembly polls of 2001 and 2006, which eventually turned out to be “big jokes”, Mr Bose asserted that the Left Front forming the government for the eighth term is only a matter of time.
Cocking a snook at the different predictions of various news channels which have clearly showed the defeat of the Left Front, Mr Bose sarcastically said, “These exit poll predictions by some so-called election experts are nothing but bogus and are meant only to create confusion among the people.”
Describing these analysis as “without any scientific basis”, Mr Bose said, “A race among the TV channels is going on to broadcast exit polls which are predicting that the results will go against the Left Front but it will ultimately prove otherwise.”
Emphasising that the exit poll forecasts have “always” been proved wrong since the 2001 Assembly polls in West Bengal, Mr Bose said, “All such predictions have failed to alter the people’s mandate which overwhelmingly elected Left Front to power all these years.”
Commenting on the sixth and final phase of the polls, which completed the entire polling process in the state, the CPI(M) state secretary alleged that in some booths at Gopiballavpur and Binpur in West Midnapore, the CPI(M) polling agents were “intimidated” and driven out by the Trinamul Congress workers and the Maoists.