Lok Sabha Election Results 2024: Shashi Tharoor says 'exit polls are laughable...'

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BJP will win up to 7 seats in Kerala - either they are suffering from heatstroke or they don't understand Kerala. Some of these exit polls are also laughable for other reasons.

I don't think we should take them seriously," he added.The Congress MP said that the Congress looked all over the place and no wave of the BJP was visible.ALSO READ: Lok Sabha elections 2024: ‘Very hopeful our results will be totally opposite to exit polls,’ says Sonia Gandhi“I am perfectly aware that Thiruvananthapuram is the BJP's strongest constituency in Kerala, that on two occasions they have come second and therefore they are entirely capable of coming second again. But the possibility that they can actually win is, at the moment, a remote one because there has to be some basis for it.

We have really looked all over the place, there was no wave...," he said.ALSO READ: Shashi Tharoor to clash with Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar for Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat"In a three-cornered contest, there has to be nonetheless either a perception of what exactly the constituency is lacking in its present arrangement for a major anti-incumbency to occur or there has to be a perception that there is something really wonderful about the alternative...I can tell you that none of us have seen anything that will justify any concern on our part. We are quite relaxed going into tomorrow's counting," he said.He further exuded confidence that the numbers the people have seen in the exit Polls will be proved wrong tomorrow."Not just Thiruvananthapuram, I am also 100 percent confident that the numbers you have all seen in the exit polls for the nationwide picture will also be belied tomorrow," he said.The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance is poised