02062024-TT-01.qxd 6/1/2024 11:43 PM Page 1 123 US SECY FOR DIALOGUE WITH CHINA WORLD /thetribunechd CHANDIGARH | GURUGRAM | JALANDHAR | BATHINDA | VOL. 144 NO. 152 | 20 PAGES | ~7.00 | REGD. NO. CHD/0006/2024-2026 ESTABLISHED IN 1881  HIMACHAL PRADESH CONG: INDIA BLOC TO WIN 295+ SEATS BACK PAGE sunday | 2 june 2024 /thetribunechd www.tribuneindia.com 350 paar, Modi sarkar SRI SUKHMANI GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS teesri baar: Exit polls Predict BJP’s first win in TN, Kerala, gains in WB | 145 seats for INDIA Tribune News Service New Delhi, June 1 All exit polls on Saturday predicted a hat-trick for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, placing the BJP comfortably above the majority mark of 272 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha. As many as seven exit polls available till 9.45 pm predicted that the BJP-led NDA would bag an average of 361 seats (less than PM Modi’s target of ‘400 paar’) and the INDIA bloc 145. The BJP’s aggregate seats as per these polls would be around 311 and that of the Congress 63. If these predictions hold on June 4, the day when the results of the Lok Sabha elections would be declared, the Congress would repeat its 2019 performance with slight improvement. Also, Modi would become the only Prime Minister after late Jawaharlal Nehru to return to office thrice in a row. The BJP had won 303 seats and the Congress 52 in the 2019 elections. The Congress was unable to get the post of leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha for which a party needs 10 per cent of the total seats i.e. 54. If actual results come in line with the exit polls, a Congress leader would be the official leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha. India TV-CNX was among the agencies which predicted a possible 400 continued on page 7 s Voters on the way to cast their ballot at the world’s highest polling station at Tashigang in Lahaul & Spiti. PTI TOTAL SEATS 543 | Magic mark 272 POLLSTERS NDA INDIA BLOC Others ABP News-CVoter 353-383 152-182 ■ Times Now-ETG 358 152 ■ India Today-Axis 361-401 131-166 ■ India News-D Dynamics 371 125 ■ India TV-CNX 371-401 109-139 4-12 33 8-20 47 28-38 ■ 2019 LS RESULTS CONG UPA 52 120 NDA 353 PH-7 LOK SABHA POLL SEES 59.9% TURNOUT Curtains came down on polling for all 543 Lok Sabha seats as voting for the seventh phase on the remaining 57 seats across seven states and a union territory ended on Saturday. Till 9.45 pm, the voter turnout was 59.91 per cent, the lowest among all phases, with Jharkhand recording the highest turnout of 70 per cent, followed by West Bengal (69.8 per cent) and Himachal (68.48 per cent). VIOLENCE IN BENGAL BJP TOTAL SEATS OTHERS 303 542* 69 *VOTING IN VELLORE (TAMIL NADU) WAS HELD LATER ACTUAL RESULTS WILL BE DIFFERENT: CONG These are all psychological games he (PM Narendra Modi) is masterminding, but the actual results will be very different. — Jairam Ramesh, CONGRESS ❝ Clashes between TMC and BJP workers in several parts of West Bengal and “incidents of looting of EVMs and throwing of VVPAT machines into ponds” marred the final phase of the Lok Sabha elections in the state. It, however, recorded an impressive turnout of 69.89 per cent till 7 pm. BACK PAGE Right Path For Your Dream Career PROGRAMS OFFERED DENTISTRY Bachelor of Dental Sciences (B.D.S.) NURSING M.Sc. | B.Sc. | Post Basic | G.N.M. ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY SRI SUKHMANI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL NURSERY - 10 + 2 (CBSE) SWARN PUBLIC SCHOOL NEW DELHI (CBSE) 57.26 pc turnout in Punjab, polling largely peaceful; mixed bag predicted Jupinderjit Singh CHANDIGARH: Tribune News Service Chandigarh, June 1 Punjab witnessed largely peaceful polling for the 13 Lok Sabha seats, with 57.26 per cent turnout recorded until 6 pm. In 2014, the turnout was 70.63 per cent, and in 2019, it was 65.94 per cent. It was a unique election in Punjab with no two parties forging alliance. The Congress, AAP BJP and SAD are , locked in four-cornered contests in many seats whereas the presence of radical leaders in Sangrur, Faridkot and Khadoor Sahib has made contests five-cornered ones. The Congress and AAP have forged an alliance under the INDIA bloc at national level. However, due to registration of corruption cases against several Con- Harsimrat Kaur (SAD) Preneet Kaur (BJP) EXIT POLLS’ FORECAST Congress BJP AAP SAD Others 4-9 2-4 2-6 0-4 0-3 gress leaders by the AAP government, the parties did not have alliance in the state. The BJP and SAD also contested against each other in the General Election for the first time in the last 25 years. Predicting outcome of the elec- Charanjit Channi (Cong) tions, exit polls gave two to four seats to the BJP four to nine to , the Congress and two to six to AAP and zero to four to SAD and zero to three to others, including Independents. Although an AAP worker was gunned down at Lakhowal in Ajnala on Friday evening, no major incident of violence was reported today. Lakhowal residents boycotted the elections. In Ferozepur, BSP candidate Surinder Kamboj was continued on page 7 The exit polls have predicted that the BJP is ahead of the Congress in Haryana but will not have a clean sweep. The INDIA bloc — with the Congress contesting nine seats and AAP one — will perform better than the 2019 elections. Overall, the graph of the BJP has come down. In the 2019 LS poll, the BJP had won all 10 seats but this time, the Congress seems to have gained. The India TV-CNX and India Today-Axis My India exit polls showed six to eight seats for the BJP and two to four seat for the Congress. The News 24-Today’s Chanakya gave six seats to the BJP and four seats to the Congress. The India News and Times Now-ETG Survey gave seven seats to the BJP and three to the Congress. INSIDE SRI SUKHMANI INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, NEW DELHI PHARMACY No clean sweep, BJP ahead of Cong in Haryana M.Tech | B.Tech (Mechanical | Civil | Computer Science | Electronics | Electrical) PGDM - AICTE Approved B. Pharmacy | D. 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Although there is a 4 per cent fall in the voter turnout since 2019 — 68 per cent as compared to 72.42 per cent five years ago — the BJP is confident of retaining all four seats. A major dip in the polling percentages in five of the six Assembly segments where the bypolls CHANDIGARH OFFICE: SCO 339-340, 2nd Floor, Sector 35-B DELHI OFFICE: A-3, Ring Road, South Extension-I, New Delhi-49 Congress candidate Vikramaditya Singh and BJP’s Kangana Ranaut in Mandi on Saturday. PTI/ANI were held simultaneously is keeping the candidates on tenterhooks. The BJP is upbeat and confident of winning Mandi, from where actress Kangana Ranaut is contesting and which saw a heavy turnout of 72.32 per cent. The optimism stems from the highest Today’s issue is of 20 pages, including six-page Spectrum. polling of 78.28 per in Seraj, represented by Leader of Opposition Jai Ram Thakur, followed by 77.47 per cent in continued on page 7 Email: principal@srisukhmanigroup.edu.in Web: www.srisukhmanigroup.edu.in Ph: 01762-524805, 506445 98780-34562, 95010-99999