AAP voters are silent, won't come out in exit polls: Raghav Chadha, AAP co-in charge for Gujarat
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New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party today made light of the exit poll results that predicted another term for the BJP in Gujarat.
The party senior leader Raghav Chadha said that exit polls "always favour the BJP", NDTV reported.
Unlike the visible BJP supporters, AAP workers didn't come out in exit polls keeping silence, hence the party, according to him, is underestimated.
However, Chadha, who shares charge of AAP for Gujarat, hoped that his party will perform "significantly better" for a party contesting in the state for the first time.
While exit polls for Delhi offered a clean sweep for AAP in the civic polls, Chadha said AAP will do better than predictions for Delhi.
He cited the example of 2013 Delhi polls where predictions offered only four to five seats to the AAP, but proving wrong exit polls AAP emerged with 28 seats.
"People could not gauge who our voters are... Aam Aadmi Party will get a significant voteshare and form the government in Gujarat," he reportedly said.
Despite its long-drawn intense campaign in Gujarat, exit polls by the Aak Tak-Axis My India gave AAP between three and 21 seats at the most.
Nine exit polls altogether predicted that the party will get eight seats.
In the lead-up to the polls, Arvind Kejriwal of AAP predicted in writing that his party would win 90 seats with 8 seats in Surat alone.
In 2018, AAP had failed to open its account in Gujarat.
Exit polls show that the BJP will walk away with 132 of the 182 assembly seats, up from 99 seats in 2018 and128 seats in 2002.
AAP's entry in Gujarat will serve as a death knell for Congress in the state, eating into the traditional vote base of the Grand old Party.
The Congress is likely to get 38 seats suffering a major slide from 77 in the 2018 elections.
