05-09-2006, 09:11 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>DMK sunrise in exit polls </b>
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Chennai/Kolkata, May 8: Exit polls carried out by various television channels after voting in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections on Monday predicted a big win for the DMK-led alliance. While Star News gave the Democratic Progressive Alliance (DMK plus allies) 172 seats and the AIADMK front 55 seats.
<b>The CNN-IBN exit poll gave the DMK plus allies 157 to 167 seats, the AIADMK 64-74 and Others two to six. It also said 41 per cent of the people preferred DMK chief M. Karunanidhi as Chief Minister while 35 per cent wanted Ms Jayalalithaa at the helm. Actor-politician Vijayakanth, heading the fledgling DMDK, polled an impressive 10 per cent for the chief ministerâs post and the DMKâs prince-in-waiting, Mr M.K. Stalin, a mere one per cent.</b>
<b>In West Bengal, the exit poll results suggested a thumping majority for the Left Front. According to the Bengali news channel Star Ananda-AC Nielsen exit poll, the Left Front would win 208 seats, the Trinamul-BJP combine 44 seats, the Congress 33 seats and Others eight seats. The Kolkata TV-ORG/Marg exit poll predicted 195-205 seats for the Left Front, 46-54 seats for the Trinamul Congress, 30-35 seats for the Congress and seven to 10 for Others. If the predictions for Tamil Nadu are correct, the 82-year-old Dravidian warhorse will coast into Fort St. George as chief minister soon after the counting of votes is over on Thursday for a fifth term in a political career spanning over six decades</b>.
âThe outcome looks very bright for us. Our alliance will get more than 200 seats and the DMK will be able to form a government on its own,â maintained a beaming Mr M. Karunanidhi, who heads the Democratic Progressive Alliance, which includes the Congress, PMK, the two Communist and two Muslim League factions. He had reason to smile for preliminary reports from the districts indicated that voting preferences could be on expected lines â the arithmetic of the larger DPA grouping overcoming the chemistry that AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa had hoped to work on the electorate.
In contrast to Mr Karunanidhiâs ebullience, Ms Jayalalithaa appeared rather quiet in her brief media interaction after casting her vote at the Stella Maris College, close to her Poes Garden bungalow in Chennai, on Monday morning. âI have said all that I wanted during the run-up to the polling. I do not want to make any further comment,â was all that she said.
Her new ally, Vaiko of the MDMK, declared at the poll booth in his native Kalingapatti that the AIADMK front would âsweep the pollsâ and the alliance would win over 200 seats. âI have been saying this from the very beginning,â he said. Another AIADMK ally, Thol Thirumavalavan of the Dalit Panthers of India, also said something to that effect. Opinion poll surveys and exit polls have often gone wrong and the voter ended up having the last laugh. It can happen again when the EVMs are lined up for counting on May 11. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I hope it comes true.
DMK is another worst side.
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Chennai/Kolkata, May 8: Exit polls carried out by various television channels after voting in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections on Monday predicted a big win for the DMK-led alliance. While Star News gave the Democratic Progressive Alliance (DMK plus allies) 172 seats and the AIADMK front 55 seats.
<b>The CNN-IBN exit poll gave the DMK plus allies 157 to 167 seats, the AIADMK 64-74 and Others two to six. It also said 41 per cent of the people preferred DMK chief M. Karunanidhi as Chief Minister while 35 per cent wanted Ms Jayalalithaa at the helm. Actor-politician Vijayakanth, heading the fledgling DMDK, polled an impressive 10 per cent for the chief ministerâs post and the DMKâs prince-in-waiting, Mr M.K. Stalin, a mere one per cent.</b>
<b>In West Bengal, the exit poll results suggested a thumping majority for the Left Front. According to the Bengali news channel Star Ananda-AC Nielsen exit poll, the Left Front would win 208 seats, the Trinamul-BJP combine 44 seats, the Congress 33 seats and Others eight seats. The Kolkata TV-ORG/Marg exit poll predicted 195-205 seats for the Left Front, 46-54 seats for the Trinamul Congress, 30-35 seats for the Congress and seven to 10 for Others. If the predictions for Tamil Nadu are correct, the 82-year-old Dravidian warhorse will coast into Fort St. George as chief minister soon after the counting of votes is over on Thursday for a fifth term in a political career spanning over six decades</b>.
âThe outcome looks very bright for us. Our alliance will get more than 200 seats and the DMK will be able to form a government on its own,â maintained a beaming Mr M. Karunanidhi, who heads the Democratic Progressive Alliance, which includes the Congress, PMK, the two Communist and two Muslim League factions. He had reason to smile for preliminary reports from the districts indicated that voting preferences could be on expected lines â the arithmetic of the larger DPA grouping overcoming the chemistry that AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa had hoped to work on the electorate.
In contrast to Mr Karunanidhiâs ebullience, Ms Jayalalithaa appeared rather quiet in her brief media interaction after casting her vote at the Stella Maris College, close to her Poes Garden bungalow in Chennai, on Monday morning. âI have said all that I wanted during the run-up to the polling. I do not want to make any further comment,â was all that she said.
Her new ally, Vaiko of the MDMK, declared at the poll booth in his native Kalingapatti that the AIADMK front would âsweep the pollsâ and the alliance would win over 200 seats. âI have been saying this from the very beginning,â he said. Another AIADMK ally, Thol Thirumavalavan of the Dalit Panthers of India, also said something to that effect. Opinion poll surveys and exit polls have often gone wrong and the voter ended up having the last laugh. It can happen again when the EVMs are lined up for counting on May 11. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I hope it comes true.
DMK is another worst side.