Punjab Deputy Chief Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Badal on Sunday said that in a three-cornered contest, accuracy of exit polls will fall and ground-level response will be different.
“We respect the opinion of various psephologists but the ground level response will be different. In a three-cornered contest, accuracy of exit polls will fall,” he said with regard to exit poll results regarding the Delhi assembly polls, that was held on February 7.
Sukhbir, while interacting with the media after paying obeisance at the Golden Temple along with his wife and Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, said that the last results of State assembly elections in 2012 bear a testimony to the fact that ground reality can be very different from the exit polls.
On AAP, he said that its performance in Delhi polls will have no ramification in Punjab. He said that Talwandi Sabo by-election has already proved that AAP has lost its impact in political landscape of the State and Dhuri by-election will confirm the same.
Replying to a question on stalling projects started by BJP former MP from Amritsar Navjot Singh Sidhu, Sukhbir said that the “projects do not belong to Sidhu or any other politician for that matter. They are initiated and implemented by Government as per the requirements of the people”. “Same is the case of projects pertaining to development of the holy city,” he said, adding that much more is being done as compared to what had been announced earlier.
On being asked to comment on BJP taking support of the followers of Dera Sacha Sauda despite ‘Messenger of God’ controversy in SAD-BJP governed Punjab, he said that it is for the BJP to decide what has to be its course of action.