“OUR Bengal Results Will Surprise All Pollsters”: BJP GS Ram Madhav
Following post exit poll predicting return of NDA government for the second consecutive term, both opposition and the ruling parties at the centre are busy working out their next programs. As TDP supremo and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandra Babu Naidu is busy getting together all non NDA leader s to halt Modi’s Juggernaut, Ram Madhav, BJP General Secretary , says the saffron party will surprise pollsters by repeating 2014 UP in West Bengal. Most of the exit polls have predicted that BJP will make significant gains in the eastern state where all the seven phases of polling was held amidst poll related violence. Bengal will surprise all the pollsters. “What Uttar Pradesh was to us in 2014, Bengal will be in 2019,” he tweeted. Everybody has seen tremendous outpouring of support for PM Modi, says Ram Madhav.”Bengal will surprise all the pollsters. We are hoping to do extremely well. What Uttar Pradesh was to us in 2014, Bengal will be in 2019,” he said.”Everybody has seen a tremendous outpouring of support for Prime Minister Modi and BJP in Bengal this time,” Ram Madhav said. India Today-Axis has projected a tough contest between Trinamool (TMC) and the BJP with both getting around 19 to 23 seats in the state, while another exit poll, News18-IPSOS, gave the TMC an edge over BJP, with the latter winning only 3-4 seats in the West Bengal. The BJP general secretary denied some exit polls projections that “Mahagathbandhan” will get a sizable number of seats in Uttar Pradesh at the cost of BJP. “I don’t think so,” he said.The said, “Mere coming together of two parties does not make any difference. It is not about arithmetic only. They have to have a programme. People should be convinced that the coming together of these two parties will make a difference in their lives. That was not possible.””The confusion on what may happen in Uttar Pradesh will end on May 23. We will get good number of seats in UP,” he added.
