CPM calls exit polls ‘political intervention’

Calling the exit polls which gave the NDA a lead over the Congress and its allies a tool of electoral intervention, CPM today said that the ...

Calling the exit polls which gave the NDA a lead over the Congress and its allies a tool of electoral intervention, CPM today said that the Election Commission should have evoked its powers under Article 324 which makes it the sole authority on elections related matters.

‘‘The EC has favoured a law to prohibit exit polls, it could have used its powers under Article 324 and act against it,’’ CPM’s senior politburo member Prakash Karat said.

In 1999 this is exactly what the EC has evoked to put ban on exit polls till the completion of the polling process. However, the Supreme Court ruled against it on the ground that the EC does not have the wherewithal to implement the ban.

Referring to what he called ‘‘highly contradictory’’ results of the exit polls, Karat rubbished them saying, ‘‘It is amply clear that these polls have no scientific basis and were a method to influence the voter.’’

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