1. Among the pre poll surveys two surveys looked most trust worthy- CSDS – Loknithi and Rajdeep Sardesai’s channel. According to CSDS the likely seat Congress would get jumped from 90 in April to 100+ in May. This increase was predicted while Modi was busy with his rallies. (Those who are in the know,  know why CSDS is credible).
  2.  Though Rajdeep Sardesai is not pro BJP he had predicted that BJP would win in both 2014 LS elections and UP assembly elections in 2017. Presently he predicts that Congress would get 106-118 seats in Karnataka. Moreover his exit poll base is much bigger (around 70000)
  3. Though C-Four  seems  pro Congress, its  exit poll base too is significantly large (27000). Even if we deduct around 5% vote share it predicts, even then the outcome seem to favour Congress.
  4. The polling percentage  is highest in 2018  in the post independent era. For this kind of record voting either there should be a visible wave or women must have voted in large numbers as they did in 2013.
  5. If Modi wave were to be factor, then the voting in cities should have been significantly higher. As the data in other districts do not provide city based voting  percentage, let us take Bangalore as an indicator. The polling in Bangalore is 10% less than what it was in 2013. It suggests that those who were influenced by Modi did not feel like voting!!
  6.  If that is true then, higher polling must be due to the voting by women, backward communities and minorities. In 1978 when similar polling occurred (71.8 ) Congress led by Devaraj Urs had registered a massive victory.

The present scenario is akin to that. According to India today, over 48% Dalits and 80% Muslims have supported Congress. In 2013, where Muslim voters were  over 40% BJP had won 6 out of 15.  This time Modi & co  must have contributed for a greater polarization of  Muslim votes.

Generally 70% of the voters vote for their traditional favourite party. Hence we should look for the trends in voting pattern. We have only CSDS data regarding this (of April-May) that trend seems to favour Congress.

If someone wants to debate this logically, a discussion is worth it! I am subject to correction. But merely stating that Today’s Chanakya or C-Four predicts so does not prove anything.

If results prove this wrong, then

  1. The polling did not happen according to this logic
  2.  EVMS should be doubted.
  3. The methodology and inference of the surveys must be faulty.

My analysis does not mean that I am pro Congress. This is an attempt to understand   an electoral exit poll survey scientifically.  Anyway, we have our role cut out.. Whoever wins, we may have to function as a vigilant opposition!

Vasu H.V

DR. H.V. VASU

SHIVASUNDAR

 

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Bhopal, Dec 28: A 10-year-old boy fell into an open borewell in Madhya Pradesh's Guna district on Saturday evening and a rescue operation was underway, officials said.

The incident took place in Raghogarh area.

Sumit Meena, the boy, slipped into the open shaft of the borewell at Pipliya village, about 50 km from Guna district headquarters, about 5 pm.

He was trapped at a depth of around 39 feet, Raghogarh Congress MLA Jaivardhan Singh told PTI from the spot.

A parallel pit has been dug to rescue him, he said.

While police started the rescue operation immediately, a team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) had also arrived from Bhopal, the MLA said.

Oxygen was being pumped into the borewell, he said.