Many Lapses In India Today Exit Poll?

During the elections, it is common for the firms to come up with exit poll surveys after the polling. There is no need to talk about the surveys that are coming out on the elections. India Today is at the front fort among the media houses that are giving the exit polls. Even when people used to not talk about the surveys India Today gave the accurate surveys. This is the reason why people look at the surveys of the firm.

However, we cannot say that the media house cannot be accurate all the time. No media house or firm can have 100 percent accuracy in the surveys. How many were predicted rightly in every ten exit polls is the main question. The recent exit poll survey announced by India Today-Axis My India created a big row.

The media house predicted that the alliance would win the general elections and Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh. As per its prediction, YCP might win just two MP seats. If we can adopt this to the Assembly segments then the party cannot win more than 15 seats. If any small media house came up with such a prediction then it need not be taken seriously but it is a popular media group. A debate was held on the exit polls on a TV channel.

Consulting editor of the media house(India Today) Rajdeep Sardesai made some key comments on the predictions on AP elections. He said that YCP did a good job in AP in the past five years as revolutionary changes took place in the education and medical sectors. The face of government schools and hospitals changed largely. Rural people and women are attracted towards the party and I am predicting they might support Jagan, he said.

As these factors are in favour of YCP, the Editor expressed his shock over the exit poll having a different prediction. He taunted Axis My India MD Pradeep Gupta on this. To this, Pradeep Gupta said that Chandrababu’s arrest in the Skill scam created sympathy and there is a tradition of changing party every five years in the Southern states and this favored the TDP-Jana Sena-BJP alliance. His response led to a new debate.

The predictions made by India Today-Axis My India went wrong in West Bengal in 2021 and in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh in late 2023. The predictions said that Congress might win the elections. But the reality was different and this led to a new debate on whether this applies to AP exit polls too.