Everyone loves a good exit poll . A good exit poll is, essentially speaking, a controversial one. The period between the last minute of the polling in the general elections and the early morning of the counting day is punishing.
This is when all the existential doubts take root and the fear of irrelevance flowers. Pollsters, therefore, do a good job of saving all the stakeholders in the election process from existential crisis. Everyone is kept busy.
Everyone feels important. Even those who took off on the long weekends instead of exercising their right to vote. Let's discuss 2024 exit polls.
There is a unanimous projection that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will return to power with an even bigger margin. The opposition has, pro forma, rejected it. It's only a matter of hours before the verdict will be released from the EVMs.
All the projections, captured on non-stop live programming on TV channels, newspaper headlines, and social media posts, are going to be irrelevant the moment the counting begins. Bigger irrelevance, however, ought to be reserved for those who pruned and preened their 'analyses' to suit the numbers. This general election will go down in India's political history as a single-agenda election.
Do you want Narendra Modi to continue being the Prime Minister of India? The voter responded to this simple question. Nothing more, nothing less. If the exit poll numbers are correct, the nation has responded with a resounding.
