Stung by the exit polls that have projected an edge to the Opposition Congress, BJP State leaders have maintained that the exit polls will be proved wrong when votes polled in the Karnataka Assembly elections are counted on Saturday.
Leading the party’s defence, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who has contested from Shiggaon, told media persons in Shiggaon on Thursday that even in the 2018 Assembly elections, the surveys had indicated that the Congress would get 107 seats. But the final results were completely different then, he pointed out, while expressing confidence that a similar thing would happen now too.
He said the BJP was particularly helped by the rigorous campaign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and expressed confidence that the party would get a majority. He, however, declined to respond to queries on the possibility of Karnataka witnessing a hung Assembly.
