My prediction proved wrong, I am ready to apologize… Prashant Kishore said on BJP’s claim of 300 seats

New Delhi: The results of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections surprised big political experts. These include election strategist Prashant Kishor. he/she admitted that his/her predictions about the 2024 election results proved wrong. For this, he/she is ‘ready to apologize’ for the mistakes in his/her pre-election assessment. Prashant Kishor made this comment in his/her interview to India Today News Channel after the results of the Lok Sabha elections. he/she said that yes, I and pollsters like me were proved wrong. We are ready to accept this. he/she also said that he/she is also ready to apologize for this mistake.

Results came different from PK’s claim

Prashant Kishor had claimed during the Lok Sabha elections that the BJP would repeat its 2019 performance and get around 300 seats. However, his/her predictions fell flat as the BJP got 240 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, 20 per cent less than the seats it won in the 2019 elections. The BJP managed to garner a majority thanks to its NDA allies, who took the alliance’s seat count past the magic figure of 272.

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‘Now I will not talk about the number of seats’

When Prashant Kishor was asked if he/she would continue to predict the number of seats in the upcoming elections in the country, Prashant Kishor said that no, I will no longer talk about the number of seats in the elections. Prashant Kishor admitted that his/her estimates proved to be largely wrong in many key areas. he/she said that I had put my assessment in front of you and I have to admit on camera that the assessment I had made was 20 percent wrong in terms of numbers. We were saying that BJP would get around 300 seats and they got 240 seats. But I had said earlier that there was a little anger among the people against the government, but there was no widespread discontent against Narendra Modi.

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Said to apologize for wrong prediction

Prashant Kishor admitted that making numerical projections was a mistake and vowed to refrain from doing so in future elections. he/she said that as a strategist, I should not have gone into figures. I never used to do that. In the last two years, I have made the mistake of going into figures. Once during the Bengal assembly elections and now in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Specifically, if you remove the numbers, everything I said was correct. Prashant Kishor decodes 2024 results, admits election numbers were wrong.