Exit Polls Predict Landslide Win for BJP in Both States
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c m y k c m y k TABLOID Salman Khan 25 HE SIAN GE shares T NEWA DELHI TUESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2019 A another poster of Dabangg 3 NATION | Communalism NEWSMAKERS | Interview Condolezza Rice says Prince Harry admits to tension, govts should stay above says he is charting a path religious preferences 4 different from brother William 12 www.asianage.com RNI No. 57290/94, Regd No: DL-SW-05/4189/15-17 Vol. 26 No. 246 | 32 PAGES | `5.00 WINDOWS ■ Cong may do worse in Maharashtra, Haryana than in LS polls We’ll go inside Exit polls predict landslide PoK if needed: Malik, Rajnath win for BJP in both states Mend your ways, behave, Pak told VINEETA PANDEY YUSUF JAMEEL NEW DELHI, OCT. 21 EXIT POLLS ‘NO DENT TO BJP’S GRIP ON POWER’ with agency inputs Pakistan troops Voter turn out SRINAGAR/LEH, OCT. 21 The exit polls have pre- HARYANA: TOTAL SEATS - 90 63% dicted a landslide victory Jammu and Kashmir gov- violate 2003 for the BJP-led National BJP+ CONG+ INLD JJP OTHERS ernor Satya Pal Malik Democratic Alliance in TIMES NOW 71 11 0 0 8 warned Pakistan on truce yet again both the Maharashtra and Monday of stern military Haryana Assembly polls CNN NEWS 18 75 10 0 0 5 action if it continued to AGE CORRESPONDENT held on Monday. While push in terrorists into SRINAGAR, OCT. 21 Fast bowler Umesh Yadav cele- NEWS X 75-80 9-12 0 0 1-4 brates the dismissal of South most exit polls predicted a Sharad Pawar J&K to foment trouble in REPUBLIC TV 5-9 African Heinrich Klaasen saffron tsunami, the TV9 52-63 15-19 0-1 7-9 the state. “We will dis- Pakistan troops on Bharatvarsh poll indicat- mantle all the terrorist Monday again violated the during the third day of final TV9 BHRATVARSH 47 23 0-1 11 8 Test between India and South ed a hung Assembly in Pawar: There camps. If they don’t desist November 2003 ceasefire Africa at JSCA Stadium in Haryana. Poll of Exit Polls 66 14 2 4-6 2 we will go inside understanding by resort- Going by the exit polls, (Pakistan-occupied- ing to unprovoked small Ranchi on Monday. Voter turn out will be change ■ Report on Page 14 — PTI the BJP-Shiv Sena Kashmir),” he said while arms firing and mortar alliance is expected to MAHARASHTRA: TOTAL SEATS - 288 63% Mumbai: Nationalist talking to reporters on the shelling along the Line of form the government in BJP+ CONG+ OTHERS The BJP- Congress Party chief sidelines of a function Control in Jammu and SC: Demolished Maharashtra again, while Sharad Pawar expressed organised by the police to Kashmir’s Poonch district. in Haryana incumbent REPUBLIC 223 54 11 Sena will confidence here on pay tribute to its martyrs A defence spokesman in have a Ravidas temple CM Manohar Kal Khattar ABP NEWS 204 69 15 Monday that there will be at Zewan on the outskirts Jammu said that the will get a second term. record-break- a change of guard in of Srinagar. Pakistani troops targeted can be rebuilt Once elected, Shiv Sena’s INDIA TODAY 166-194 72-90 22-34 ing victory and Maharashtra after the The governor also said: the Indian forwards posi- Aditya Thackeray, who Assembly elections. “War is bad and Pakistan tions and civilian areas in TIMES NOW 230 48 10 Fadnavis will New Delhi: The Supreme made his political debut, be the chief "Youngsters want should behave. If they Shahpur and Gotriya area Court on Monday agreed to is likely to get a major CNN NEWS 18 243 41 4 minister change. The BJP and Shiv don’t mend their ways, of Poonch. PAGE 4 allow construction of a portfolio as he makes a again Sena ruled the state and what will happen in future shrine to Guru Ravidas, start in governance. NEWS 24 230 48 10 people hoped their expec- will be worse than what to ask the boys here what revered by the dalits, in In Maharashtra, the — Nitin tations would be fulfilled. happened yesterday.” did they achieve, so far south Delhi, on a 400 square “Poll of Exit Polls” Poll of Exit Polls 218 57 13 Gadkari That trust, however, has In a message to the peo- (through confrontation)?” metre plot of land at the showed that the BJP-Sena been betrayed," Mr Pawar ple of the Valley, particu- Defence minister same site where a Ravidas alliance had a clear roll told reporters afterwards. larly its youth, Mr Malik Rajnath Singh also talked temple was demolished in over their rivals, ■ More on Page 2 said: “There will be a new tough on Monday, saying August. The court also Congress and Nationalist Kashmir from November the armed forces will keep ordered the release of peo- Congress Party (NCP), The Assembly elections 1... participate in it and giving a befitting reply to ple arrested for protesting. with 218 seats predicted were also the first big test take it ahead. I would like ■ Turn to Page 4 Full report on Page 13 for the ruling alliance in for both first-time chief the 288-member ministers — Devendra Assembly. Fadnavis and Manohar ‘No terror camps destroyed’: Siachen is now The Congress-NCP is Lal Khattar. The main expected to get 57 seats, BJP plank for both the open to tourists while others may get 13. states was largely polaris- Pak Army rejects India claim Interestingly, the BJP- ing national issues, rang- SHAFQAT ALI Services Public Relations New Delhi: Siachen glacier, Sena had contested the (From left) Former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, actresses Diya Mirza and Deepika ing from the abrogation of ISLAMABAD, OCT. 21 of Pakistan Army Major world’s highest battlefield 2014 Assembly polls sepa- Padukone show their inked fingers after voting in Mumbai on Saturday. — PTI Article 370 in Kashmir to General Asif Ghafoor said known for extreme cold rately and later came the National Register of Pakistan military on Indian Army Chief's state- weather and tough moun- together to form the gov- In Haryana too, the The results of these exit over economic slowdown Citizens, and the ruling Monday rejected India ment was “disappointing taineering terrain, has been ernment. But this time “Poll of Exit Polls” gave polls are a major blow to and loss of jobs. However, party avoided local issues Army Chief's claim of as he holds a very respon- opened for tourists. “The they decided to be togeth- the BJP 66 seats in the the Congress, which was the BJP juggernaut and the economic slow- destroying four alleged sible position.” He said Siachen area is now open for er from the beginning Assembly of 90, while giv- hoping to revive its for- apparently rolled on down. camps in Pakistan Indian high commission tourists,” said defence minis- itself to avoid splitting of ing 14 to the Congress, tunes in the two states. unhindered in both states The BJP also strategical- Occupied Kashmir, saying in Pakistan was welcome ter Rajnath Singh. votes and giving the two to the INLD and The party had hoped to as the Congress was ly changed several sitting there were no such to take any foreign diplo- Full report on Page 3 Congress-NCP alliance an Akali Dal alliance and encash on the brewing bogged down by internal MLAs to handle camps. mat or media to prove the advantage. eight to others. dissent among people strife and factionalism. ■ Turn to Page 4 Director deneral Inter claim on ground. 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