He also claimed that the predictions were made public even as voting was still underway in some areas.

Yadav alleged that the surveys were conducted under pressure from officials on election duty. “The feedback we are getting is that the BJP and the NDA are left sweating,” he said.

The votes will be counted on Friday. The Election Commission has said that the voter turnout in the Assembly elections was a record 66.9% – highest in the state since 1951.

The police have also interrogated around 500 persons allegedly affiliated with banned organisations, and shifted several of them to the District Jail Mattan in Anantnag under preventive detention laws.

The development comes against the backdrop of the police claiming that they had cracked an “inter-state and transnational terror module” i

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