“Exit polls are published with intent to benefit one party,” says Min. HK Patil
Bengaluru: Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister HK Patil alleged that the “Post-poll surveys were published with an intent to benefit one political party.”
This comes days after several exit poll surveys indicated a significant win for the National Democratic Alliance in the Lok Sabha elections.
The Minister addressing reporters in the city on Monday called the post-poll surveys fake and that the Congress party was winning more than 16 constituencies in Karnataka. “Not only the Congress party, several experts also have expressed their views in favor of the Congress. However, the post-poll survey reports were published with an intent to benefit one party,” he said.
“We don't believe this. We are confident of winning for the sake of democracy. Experts are questioning a lot of the facts presented in the exit polls. Congress has been portrayed with declining numbers in several regions including Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka,” he added.
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In Karnataka, most exit polls favored the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), predicting 20+ seats, while the survey projections indicated only single-digit numbers for the Congress party. Several leaders, including the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President, have also rejected these numbers.
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PM Modi, RSS strengthening wall in path of SCs, STs, OBCs: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the RSS were strengthening the wall standing in the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs, even as he acknowledged that the UPA took steps to weaken that wall but not to the extent it should have.
Addressing the 'Samvidhan Rakshak Abhiyaan', Gandhi also referred to the function held on Constitution Day in Parliament and said that it is his guarantee, that "Modi has not read" the Constitution.
"If PM Modi would have read this book then what he does daily, he would not do it," Gandhi said, displaying a copy of the Constitution of India.
Gandhi said the country's whole system is pitted against Dalits, Adivasis and backward class people.
He said a wall obstructs the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs and Modi and the RSS are strengthening that wall by "adding cement to it".
"Slowly the wall (obstructing the path of SCs, STs, OBCs) is getting strengthened. Earlier, the UPA government gave MGNREGA, the land acquisition act, the right to food...those were ways to weaken that wall. Today, when I look back, I can say the UPA government did not weaken the wall to the extent it should have, it did not do it as strongly as it should have," Gandhi said.
"However, we used to make efforts to weaken that wall but they (the BJP) are strengthening that wall by adding concrete," the former Congress president said.
Gandhi said a caste survey being carried out in Telangana is a historic step and the Congress will do the same wherever it comes to power.
