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Exit Polls: TMC to win 24 seats in Bengal, BJP 14

| @indiablooms | May 19, 2019, at 07:31 pm

New Delhi, May 19 (IBNS): Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress will get 24 seats in West Bengal while the BJP will end up with 14, an exit poll by The Nielson company said, even as TMC chief Mamata Banerjee called the exit polls all gossip and a gameplan to manipulate EVMS.

The West Bengal chief minister had been using all her might to fight the BJP in Bengal, where the Amit Shah and Narendra Modi duo were eyeing 23 seats.

Various national exit polls largely show the BJP returning to power with around 300 seats.

Mamata, who cast her vote today around 3pm, said the BJP and central security forces had "tortured" West Bengal.

"I have never seen anything like this before," she said.

She later tweeted to say she had no faith In the exit polls. 

"I don’t trust Exit Poll gossip. The game plan is to manipulate or replace thousands of EVMs through this gossip. I appeal to all Opposition parties to be united, strong and bold. We will fight this battle together," she posted.

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