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185: Why Exit Polls Could Be Wrong: A Tale of Two States - UP & Bihar


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Till Sunday, 19 May, the question about who would form India’s next government, was still up for debate. 
But the speculation was swiftly shut down by not one or two, but nearly every exit poll which came out on Sunday. And they’ve all given the BJP-led NDA alliance a clean sweep victory in 2019\. But will 2019 witness another Modi wave AKA Tsunamo part 2 AKA The Return of Modi Sarkar?
We look closely at current exit polls, past predictions and ground realities, which could VERY well tell a different story about the 2019 election results.
Now we already covered part 1 of this story on our previous podcast - Exit Polls: To Trust or Not to Trust. So today, we’re looking at two states that hold 120 out of the 543 seats that went to polls – Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
Read the text [here](https://www.thequint.com/elections/exit-poll-may-get-uttar-pradesh-wrong-axis-todays-chanakya-nielsen) and [here](https://www.thequint.com/elections/bihar-has-a-history-of-proving-exit-polls-wrong).
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