The political parties in Jammu and Kashmir and their leaderships seem unimpressed by the exit polls most of which have predicted a hung assembly in the Union Territory and a few show that the National Conference (NC)-Congress combine may take the lead yet miss the majority mark of 46. Some of them have called the projections as inaccurate and for others these are swerved. While the Congress is claiming a win of over fifty out of the 90 seats for it and its alliance partner, the BJP has dismissed the exit poll projections as flawed.
“We will get more than forty seats including, at least, two in the Kashmir Valley and with independents and others whom we supported in the elections we will cross the fifty mark,” said a BJP leader. Ravinder Raina, president of the J&K unit of the BJP too has termed the exit polls as inaccurate and claimed that his party will form a government on its own in J&K. “We are going to win these elections and form the government with a comfortable majority.
We will not only retain all the 25 seats in the Jammu region that we won in the 2014 elections but also add more to our kitty this time. In the Kashmir Valley, we may win the Karnah and Gurez seats and our friends among the independents and the nominees of other political groups who too are going to win through will join us,” he said. In Delhi, the BJP’s national spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari exuded confidence that the party will secure the majority of seats and form the government on its ow.