Exit polls are like a spicy curry that everyone likes but only a handful can digest. Journalists tend to have contempt for them and politicians only like those that go in their favour. But both these groups keep an eye out for the numbers.
This season, the exit poll mania was scheduled for Monday evening, once the last votes were cast for the seventh phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh. Out of the five states that will have new assemblies, the pollster verdict seemed obvious in three of them: the BJP will grab Uttar Pradesh and Manipur, and the AAP will clinch Punjab.
