A day before results, Navjot Singh Sidhu's prediction

March 10, 2017 19:40

Navjot Singh Sidhu, who joined the Congress days before the Punjab assembly elections, has junked exit poll predictions that say his party is in a neck and neck race with the Aam Aadmi Party for the number 1 spot in the state, where poll results will be announced tomorrow.

"The ground reality is very different, for voters per seat above 1.5 lakh you can't decide on the basis of exit polls that have a 20,000 sample size," the cricketer turned politician said. He has predicted that Arvind Kejriwal's "AAP will get around 40 seats and the Akali-BJP won't get more than 10." The Congress he reckons will win the rest.

Punjab has 117 assembly seats. To form government a party needs to win 59 seats. Exit polls on Thursday predicted a big rout for the incumbent Akali Dal- BJP government and a close finish between the Congress and AAP, which makes its debut in assembly elections in the state.

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