‘Exit Polls Are All Wrong’: Tharoor Cites Australia’s Example

The results overwhelmingly favoured the incumbent National Democratic Alliance (NDA), helmed by the BJP.

Congress Leader and MP Shashi Tharoor took to Twitter on Sunday, 19 May, to publicly deny the exit poll results as the seventh and final phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections ended. The results overwhelmingly favoured the incumbent National Democratic Alliance (NDA), helmed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Tharoor pointed to the fact that the exit poll predictions for the Australian elections, held a day prior, on Saturday, 18 May, had been vastly incorrect as well. The left-leaning Labor Party was expected to win, but the incumbent Liberal-National alliance came back for another term.

I believe the exit polls are all wrong. In Australia last weekend, 56 different exit polls proved wrong. In India many people don’t tell pollsters the truth fearing they might be from the Government. Will wait till 23rd for the real results.

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) May 19, 2019