RJD leader and Mahagathbandhan’s chief ministerial face Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on Wednesday dismissed the exit polls – most of which have given an edge to the NDA – and said that the 76 lakh more votes cast this time were “ones for change and not for keeping Nitish Kumar as CM”.

Speaking to reporters in the state capital, Patna, Tejashwi said, “When people were still casting their votes, sundry exit poll results were streaming in. It clearly shows it is a bid to put psychological pressure on officials. I have apprehensions of slow counting.”

The RJD leader said they had received encouraging feedback from the ground. “We are going to get 160-plus seats. In fact, we have better pre-counting feedback than the Janata Dal got in 1995.”

Tejashwi was referring to several pollsters not givin

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