There are all the reasons for the exit poll results to be correct.

There are many conditions for them to be proved wrong, too. However, the fulfilment of these conditions is extremely difficult, if not impossible, in today’s India.

The first reason why the exit polls could be right is the Election Commission itself has started feeling proud of working like a wing of the BJP.

The second reason is the big media, which decided long ago that it would work as a propaganda department for the BJP.

The third is the judiciary, which has done amazing acrobatics to remain favourable to the ruling party and to appear balanced.

The fourth reason is India’s bureaucracy and police, which have accepted the ideology of the BJP or of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as their guiding star instead of the constitution.

The fifth and perhaps the most important reason is India’s big capitalist class, which has adopted the Narendra Modi-led BJP as the most suitable means to grab all of India’s resources.

Before writing all this I must say that these results, if true, have proven the predictions of my friends and students wrong. My young friends – whether from Purvanchal or western Uttar Pradesh, or Rajasthan or Bihar – all felt there was a groundswell against the BJP. What to say about Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala! Even in Delhi, they saw and felt something else during the election campaign.

Were all of them misjudging the people – to be precise, the Hindu voters? Did everyone’s hard work go in vain?

Do we now accept that the youth have been defeated by the old? My young friends are still confident that a majority of those under 35 have voted against the BJP. But did the older ones, not caring for the present of the youth, decide to invest in the utopia of the Hindu rashtra?

The Election Commission did not even raise a finger against the anti-Muslim propaganda carried out by BJP leaders, led by Narendra Modi, from the first to the last phase of the election.

If the speeches of all BJP leaders and the party’s election campaign materials are analysed, one can see clearly that this time, the BJP has sought an anti-Muslim mandate from its voters. A mandate to put Muslims in their place.

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