Rashtriya Janata Dal leader and the Opposition’s chief ministerial face Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday dismissed exit polls that projected a victory for the ruling National Democratic Alliance in the Bihar Assembly elections.

Several exit polls released on Tuesday evening, after the second and final phase of polling ended, forecast that the NDA would defeat the Opposition Mahagathbandhan coalition.

On Wednesday, Yadav claimed that the exit polls were made public even as voting was still underway in some areas.

“The feedback we are getting is that the BJP and the NDA are left sweating,” he said.

He also alleged that the surveys were conducted under pressure from officials on election duty.

“People are restless and panicked,” he claimed. “We neither live in false hope from surveys

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