Assembly elections Highlights: Exit polls predict Congress majority in Haryana, edge to INDIA bloc in J&K

Assembly elections live updates: According to Raja, the ground reality ‘is in tune with exit polls.’

“In Haryana, everyone knows there is anger against BJP. This government has betrayed whatever it had promised to the farmers. They are angry with PM Modi and his policies,” he added.

Assembly elections live updates: With exit polls predicting that the BJP will be defeated in both Jammu & Kashmir and Haryana, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav called this a ‘defeat’ of PM Narendra Modi.

Assembly elections live updates: National Conference boss and ex-J&K chief minister Farooq Abullah exuded confidence that the NC-alliance will form the government ‘comfortably’ in the Union territory.

Assembly elections live updates: “We will not need any kind of alliance, I have said from the very beginning that the BJP will form the govt alone. We have all the arrangements... I am confident that BJP will alone form the government but if we need that (alliance) we will give it a thought, we have all the arrangements,” Saini said.

Assembly elections live updates: Haryana CM and BJP leader Nayab Singh Saini said, “I would like to thank 2 crore 80 lakh people of Haryana for participating in a successful election process by maintaining social harmony and brotherhood. I thank all the officials and those who facilitated this festival of democracy. I thank the Haryana police and paramilitary personnel.”

Assembly elections live updates: "Exit polls cannot be trusted. We will form the government in Haryana, even though with a smaller margin, but some independent candidates want to join us. In J&K, BJP will emerge as the biggest party with the right to form the government," said BJP candidate from Srigufwara-Bijbehara Sofi Yousuf.

Assembly elections live updates: “National Conference and Congress alliance is getting a clear majority in the J&K assembly elections. The high command will decide whether an alliance has to be formed with any other party or not,” said NC Provincial President for Jammu, Ratan Lal Gupta.

Earlier, the PDP had hinted willingness to support a party to keep the BJP out of power in Jammu & Kashmir.

Assembly elections live updates: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Mendhar, Murtaza Khan on Sunday refused to accept exit poll projections on Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections, saying that the exit poll numbers are far away from the actual numbers.

"The exit polls sometimes don't show the reality. The exit polls and results have a huge difference in the recently concluded parliamentary elections. The exit poll numbers are far away from the actual numbers. They (Congress-NC) are not even close to form government," Khan said.

Assembly elections live updates: "BJP will form the government with full majority in both the places (Jammu-Kashmir and Haryana). The BJP government will get the blessings of the people. The way Prime Minister Modi has worked for the poor in the last 10 years, he has built development and trust in Jammu & Kashmir. People are voting for BJP and the results will come on the 8th in which the corrupt and looters will lose," said BJP's National General Secretary Tarun Chugh.

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Assembly elections live updates: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sandeep Pathak said the way his party fought the elections in Haryana was “commendable”.

"We will wait for the results. Exit polls are not always right. We will accept the people's verdict, and everything will happen for good," Pathak said.

Assembly elections live updates: Congress leader and party candidate from Dooru constituency, Ghulam Ahmad Mir predicted that the BJP will be “wiped out” in the assembly elections.

"There is a good wave of Congress in Haryana too... Congress will form the government there (Haryana) with full majority. Elections are also going to be held in Maharashtra in the coming days and there too NCP-Congress and Uddhav Thackeray's party will achieve tremendous success...BJP will be completely wiped out in these elections," Mir said.

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Assembly elections live updates: National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah on Saturday dismissed the exit poll predictions.

"I'm amazed channels are bothering with exit polls, especially after the fiasco of the recent general elections. I'm ignoring all the noise on channels, social media, WhatsApp Etc because the only numbers that matter will be revealed on the 8th of Oct. The rest is just time pass," he said in a post on X.

Assembly elections live updates: Congress candidate from the Rajouri Assembly constituency, Iftikhar Ahmed said the National Conference and Congress alliance will receive better results than exit polls projections.

"Received a lot of love from people, they have voted one-sidedly. In the last 10 years, the BJP has hurt people a lot. Article 370 was abrogated. People were angry with them and we got to see this anger during this election. We will get a better result than what is being shown in the exit polls. I believe that the INDIA alliance will form government in Jammu and Kashmir with a two-third majority," Ahmed said.

Assembly elections live updates: As the exit polls predicted a return to power for the Congress, BJP candidate from Ambala Cantt Assembly seat Anil Vij said the situation on the ground is different.

"The vote percentage in Bhupinder Singh Hooda's reduced by 5%. In my constituency, it increased by 3%. This means that the public's support for Congress has decreased...AAP has no support in Haryana," he said.

Assembly elections live updates: Former Congress chief minister of Haryana Bhupinder Singh Hooda attributed positive exit poll predictions to the impressive track record of the Congress between 2005 and 2014, coupled with the perceived failures of the BJP-led government from 2014 to 2024, marked by corruption and underperformance.

"I have been saying this since we started campaigning that there is a wave in favour of Congress. Congress will form a government with a thumping majority...The main factor was our achievements from 2005-2014 and the failure of the BJP government from 2014-2024- corruption and non-performance. We will work on unemployment, education and security," Hooda told ANI.

Assembly elections live updates: President of Awami Ittehad Party and MP, Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid emphasized that addresses the pressing issues affecting J-K residents is his primary concern, rather than new government formation.

"This exit poll is on expected lines. In fact, the exact poll will be even better than this. We have been maintaining that this vote is against BJP's hegemony and their anti-people actions and divisive politics. People had decided to vote to keep BJP out of the power corridor," he said. (ANI)

Assembly elections live updates: Awami Ittehad Party chief Sheikh Abdul Rashid on Saturday said irrespective of the assembly election results in J&K, the Union Territory's control will lie with Delhi.

Rashid said he never relied on exit poll predictions. "Did anybody predict me winning the Baramulla parliamentary elections? Nobody! I was in jail and the least I could experience was that nobody talked about us. Anyway, people have voted, so let's wait till October 8," he asked.

Assembly elections live updates: Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda reiterated that the party high command will decide on the CM pick based on the opinions of elected MLA's.

"When people sought an account (of the works done) from them, they changed their chief minister. But people decided to change the government," he said referring to the exit polls predictions.

Assembly elections live updates: PDP leader Zuhaib Mir said the party is ready to take any step to save the identity of Kashmir, hinting at possibility of a strategy to support any non-BJP government in J&K.

"As far as we are concerned, exit polls are not a serious activity but time pass activity. PDP is confident that it will be an indispensable and important part of the secular government that will form in J-K. PDP will have an important role in forming any secular government. We had said that we are ready to take any step to save the identity of Kashmir but for this, it is important that we formulate a secular government, a government against BJP not with them," he said.