Lok Sabha Results: Prashant Kishor's prediction goes horribly wrong as BJP far from being 'No. 1 party in West Bengal'

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Follow Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 Live Updates hereAgainst the backdrop of the vote counting for the Lok Sabha polls, the official election trends and results show how they contradict most of the exit polls and political strategists' predic. One such prediction was made by political strategist and commentator Prashant Kishor last month in an interview with news agency PTI.Kishor had claimed that the BJP, "in all likelihood", would emerge as the "No.1" party in West Bengal. "They could very well be No.1 in Bengal...many of you will be surprised, but in all likelihood, to my mind...BJP is going to emerge as No.

1 party in West Bengal in Lok Sabha," Kishor had told news agency PTI.The trends released by the Election Commission show Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress (TMC) leading 29 seats. Meanwhile, the BJP was seen leading 12 seats, and the Congress one seat, around 4:30 p.m. The TMC and the Congress are part of the Opposition's INDIA bloc, but decided to contest the Lok Sabha Polls separately in West Bengal.

ALSO READ: Exit polls 2024: BJP may beat TMC in West Bengal, pollsters predict 16 Lok Sabha seats for Mamata Banerjee's partyThere are 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Election, the BJP won 18 seats, while the TMC won 22.If the trends prove right, it will come as a fall for Prashant Kishor and many other poll pundits who had predicted a huge win for the BJP in West Bengal.ALSO READ: Lok Sabha Election Results: An exit polls recap of BJP-NDA Vs INDIA in North, South, East, West — Who may win?Today's Chanakya predicted 24 ± 5 seats for the BJP in TMC-ruled Bengal. It said Mamata Banerjee's TMC could win 17 ± 5 seats.