Most exit poll results for Lok Sabha elections 2024 on Saturday predicted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is all set to retain power and Narendra Modi is l
A third term for Modi is seen by some investors as bolstering India's economy and markets as the promise of policy continuity
The News18 mega exit poll has predicted the BJP may secure between 305 and 315 seats, with a 40 per cent vote share, while the NDA is expected to win 355 to 370 seats with a 47 per cent vote share
The benchmark Sensex soared 3.7 per cent, hitting record high and breaching the 76k mark at 76,738 levels in Monday's intraday trade
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi said Monday her party is very hopeful that the results of the Lok Sabha election will be totally opposite to what has been shown in the exit polls. "We have to wait, just wait and see," Gandhi told PTI when asked about her expectations from the results scheduled to be announced on Tuesday. "We are very hopeful that our results are completely opposite to what the exit polls are showing," she added. Most exit polls have predicted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will retain power for a third straight term, with the BJP-led NDA expected to win a big majority in the Lok Sabha polls. While some exit polls have given the NDA more than 400 seats, most have predicted that it will win over 350, which is way above the majority mark of 272 seats needed to form the government. The Congress and other INDIA bloc parties have trashed the exit polls, claiming that these surveys were a work of "fantasy" and asserting that the opposition alliance will form the next ...
Sensex, Nifty on June 3: Exit polls released after the last phase of voting on June 1, 2024, unanimously predicted the clear majority for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party
NDA is forecasted to win ~370 seats (NDA had won 353 seats in 2019) according to the average of all exit polls.
More than 2,000 personnel would be deployed for counting of votes for the lone Lok Sabha seat in Mizoram, a senior official said on Monday. Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Madhup Vyas said a three-tier security arrangement has been made in all the 13 counting centres across the state. There would be three counting centres in state capital Aizawl and one each in the other district headquarters, he said. Altogether, there would be 40 counting halls with 379 counting tables. Each table would be supervised and monitored by a counting supervisor, counting agent and micro observer, he said. The counting of votes would begin at 8 am on Tuesday, and postal ballots would be counted first, followed by votes cast in the EVMs, Vyas said. There were five assembly segments where five rounds of counting would be held, four rounds of counting would be held in 15 assembly segments, three rounds in 18 assembly segments, and two rounds of counting would take place in two assembly segments, he said. M
India VIX on June 3: The decline in Indian markets' volatility index came after exit polls, which came in the evening on June 1, 2024, gave a clear majority to the BJP-led NDA alliance
NIFTY 50 index futures were up about 2.6 per cent in early trade, according to NSE International Exchange data
All you need to know before the market opens on Monday, June 03: Gift Nifty quotes around 23,300 levels as exit polls predict Modi 3.0; Asian shares rally up to 1.5% on favourable US inflation data.
Lok Sabha elections exit polls 2024: The stock market bulls will be further emboldened by the better-than-expected 8.2 per cent growth in GDP numbers
If the projections are accurate, investors will likely focus on expected policy continuity and a push for economic reforms
The rupee should open higher on Monday and appreciate over the next day or two but could face some resistance near 83.10, a foreign exchange trader at a state-run bank said
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The Congress on Sunday expressed confidence about winning the lone Lok Sabha seat in Nagaland and forming the next government at the Centre. Addressing a press conference, AICC in-charge of Nagaland Girish Chodankar said the exit poll figures were imaginary and all would be clear in the next two days. "We will not only win the lone Lok Sabha seat in Nagaland but the INDIA bloc will get majority seats in the country, while many other parties will also support the alliance. "India has voted against fake promises, misgovernance, unemployment, price rise and inflation. People have voted for the future of India and we are confident that we will prove the exit polls wrong," the Congress leader said. Chodankar, who arrived in Kohima on Saturday evening, said that it was decided at the extended executive meeting of state Congress that the party will contest the elections to the urban local bodies in the state scheduled on June 26. Except for the eastern Nagaland areas, Congress will conte
Terming the exit polls "bogus", the Congress on Sunday said they were a "deliberate attempt" to justify rigging of the elections and part of "psychological games" being played by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to lower the morale of the INDIA bloc workers. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh also hit out at Prime Minister Modi for holding several meetings, including a long brainstorming session to review the 100-day agenda of the "new government", saying these were "pressure tactics" to send out a signal to the bureaucracy and the administrative structure that he is coming back. "These are mind games -- 'I am coming back, I am going to be the prime minister again'. He is sending a signal to the bureaucracy, the administrative structure of the country and we hope that the civil servants who have been entrusted with the responsibility of ensuing a fair counting of votes will not be intimidated and not be frightened by these pressure tactics," Ramesh told PTI at the AICC headquarters
The polls suggest the Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance will clinch substantially more seats than the 272 required for a majority in the 543-seat lower house of parliament
Meanwhile, every government since 1991, Shankar Sharma said, has performed exceedingly well in different ways and with different strategies
However, in case, the BSE Sensex is unable to break past the 76,275 level, we may enter a consolidation range, wherein the support at 72,240 becomes a crucial level.