Bengaluru: 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. When asked about results in Jharkhand state, he stated “I don’t know about the outcome of results about Jharkhand state.” Answering a question on the exit polls predicting Congress defeat in high profile Channapatna Assembly segment in the state and Minister for Waqf and Housing Zameer Ahmad Khan’s racist ‘Kaala Kumaraswamy’ comment hurting the chances of the party, he stated, “We have done our duty.

I have the full confidence of victory.” “In the last Assembl.