Assembly Polls 2023: Exit polling is very difficult work. Two notable agencies are differing hugely on exit poll projections for some of the states. Only one of them can be right. From reasons like India’s sheer diversity to shortcomings in sampling and work ethic, exit polling can go wrong for a number of reasons
Exit polls are a better barometer of result than the opinion polls, and are able to direct the trend, even as they are not quite accurate in terms of seats, Emkay noted.
The extreme divergence between two prominent polling agencies has made MP tough to call. If BJP wins, credit will go to CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan. But Congress ran one of its best campaigns in MP, though its poll guarantees that worked in other states may have been neutralised by Chouhan’s Ladli Behna Yojana