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Exit poll predictions will be proven wrong, says Dy CM Shivakumar
The Statesman
|November 23, 2024
Karnataka state Congress President and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar has said that all exit poll predictions regarding the Maharashtra Assembly election and Karnataka bypolls will be proven wrong and the Congress party will emerge victorious.
Speaking to the media in the temple town Murudeshwara in Uttara Kannada district on Friday, Shivakumar said, "We will win for sure. The exit poll predictions will be reversed. On record I am making this statement and the media should show this. The exit poll results are going to be reversed."
"I have carried out campaigning in Maharashtra state. We have confidence that we are surely going to win there. AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge has stated that we will form the government with a thin margin in Maharashtra state. He has also spoken to all leaders and I have also been to Maharashtra. I could see that everything was smooth and well for the party," Shivakumar stated. "However, no one knows what is inside the voting box," he added.
This story is from the November 23, 2024 edition of The Statesman.
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