With exit polls indicating that Prime Minister Narendra Modi all set to return for third term, BJP leaders expressed a lot of enthusiasm over the massive winning margin predicted by pollsters.
Former Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, a party candidate from Patna Sahib constituency, on Sunday, targeted former Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his remark about exit polls and claim of getting 295 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections.
The senior BJP leader said the grand old party is performing poorly because it didn't stop daydreaming.
Advising Congress to work on the ground and stop criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prasad said “There is no bar on daydreaming in India. The Exit Poll is only reflecting the exact poll. We will cross 400 in Delhi (Centre) and 40 in Bihar." The exit polls have predicted a stunning victory for the saffron party, with some pollsters claiming that the BJP-led NDA's score may well cross the 400 mark.
"PM Narendra Modi worries about the poor, worries about the farmers, he is the one who is working to develop this nation, and he is the one who is safeguarding the country,” said Prasad at Patna.
Prasad also jibed at Congress chief spokesman Jairam Ramesh's statement and said that Congress's current situation is because the party never stopped daydreaming.
"People can dream during the day and there is no restraint on that. Congress is performing poorly because they haven't stopped daydreaming. They should work on the ground and win the confidence of the public and should stop criticizing and abusing PM Modi."
Tripura unit BJP president Rajib Bhattacharjee claimed on Sunday People have voted for "Modi's guarantee", and this will ensure 400 seats for the BJP-led NDA on June 4.
Speaking to reporters, Bhattacharjee claimed the opposition bloc INDIA will be defeated in the elections as it had no promise or programme for the people.
"Almost all the exit polls have predicted a landslide victory for the BJP-led NDA. My prediction is that the NDA will cross the 400–mark target set by PM Narendra Modi," he told reporters.
"The opposition bloc has no programme for the people. They will be defeated in the elections," he said, adding that several opposition leaders were sent to jail because of corruption, while the remaining were waiting for the same fate after June 4.
Founder of CVOTER, Yashwant Deshmukh said "NDA is winning primarily because PM Modi is popular and because there is a huge gap of vote share in different states wherever they are winning...Two states are a good battleground- West Bengal and Maharashtra, there is a contest in each seat. Beyond these states, all the states are one-sided..."
On Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's "Modi fantasy poll" remark, Deshmukh said "Politicians are free to say whatever they wish. They can say that they are fantasy polls of PM Modi but when our exit polls were showing that Congress is winning in Karnataka or Telangana or other INDI alliance partners in West Bengal, Delhi, Punjab, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, whenever we were saying that they are leading and they are winning, were we fantasy polls of Rahul Gandhi or Arvind Kejriwal or Mamata Banerjee or Stalin?.