Lok Sabha Results 2024: Pradeep Gupta Breaks Down on Live TV! Tears and Turmoil as Exit Polls Miss the Mark

Lok Sabha Results 2024: As the results of the Lok Sabha elections of 2024 began to come in, Axis My India Chairman and Managing Director Pradeep Gupta lost it on live television, completely contradicting his agency's exit poll projections. The incumbent BJP did not perform up to the standard and appears unlikely to meet the majority mark on its own as well as exit poll projections.

Emotional Breakdown on Live TV

While appearing on India Today's live broadcast of the election results, Pradeep Gupta broke down in tears, encouraging the anchors to comfort him live during the panel discussion. Exit polls conducted by India Today-Axis My India suggest that the NDA would win 361-401 seats in the Lok Sabha. According to polls, the INDIA group is predicted to gain between 131 and 166 seats, giving other parties between 8 and 20 seats.

According to figures from the Election Commission of India, as of Tuesday early evening, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance was leading in around 300 seats, while the INDIA alliance was leading in 229 seats.

On the eve of counting day, Gupta had told news agency ANI: “Axis My India has done Exit Polls continuously for the last 10 years. We have done that for 69 elections, including 2 Lok Sabha elections. Our predictions have been correct 65 times…and in these 65 times, every Opposition party including Congress has won one or the other time.” "As far as credibility is concerned, people who are raising questions should have a look at our track record, they will be satisfied," he added.

Clarification on the Deleted Tweet

After the last round of voting on Saturday, the great majority of exit polls indicated that the BJP and the NDA would have a clear advantage. The Janata Dal United (JDU), led by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, was victorious in 14 of the 16 seats it had challenged in the state, overtaking the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had contested 17 seats but was behind in five of them.

In the past, he also published an article stating that, despite its outstanding success in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP has an uphill battle in 13 States. A few minutes later, he removed the tweet. As a result, a lot of users that support Congress said that the pollster thinks the NDA is losing this election. "The article was removed so that the BJP doesn't feel the heat. This is how Godi Media behaves," according to a tweet. The article that Pradeep Gupta had linked to hasn't been removed by the publication, in actuality. Because of the tweet's attention-grabbing headline, Gupta removed it.