A day after polling for second and last phase of Bihar assembly elections concluded, RJD leader and Mahagathbandhan chief ministerial candidate Tejashwi Yadav dismissed the exit poll projections for the Bihar assembly elections, most of which gave a clear edge to the NDA and many pollsters predicted that the Mahagathbandhan would not form the government.

Addressing a press conference in Patna, Tejashwi Yadav said, ‘Exit polls are nothing. These forecasts have been made at the direction of the BJP's top leadership.’ He claimed that even while people were still standing in queues waiting for their turn to vote, and the polling process had not yet ended, exit polls were already being released, predicting the BJP-JD(U) alliance’s victory in the assembly elections.

Yadav said that their own party's research has shown that the Bharatiya Janata Party is ‘very nervous and getting anxious’ due to a comfortable Mahagathbandhan win. He alleged that the people of the state are also ‘restless’ seeing how exit polls were released even before polling concluded. He also questioned the sample size and criteria of the surveys, which he said had not even been made public.

The RJD leader also exuded confidence that the opposition I.N.D.I.A. bloc will form the government in the state. He also claimed that the party has received ‘better feedback’ than what was received in 1995, when Lalu Prasad Yadav fought under the symbol of the erstwhile Janata Dal.

Following the conclusion of the second and last phase of the Bihar assembly elections, multiple exit polls predicted a comfortable win for the NDA for a second term in a row. The counting of votes will take place on November 14.