Publication

This publication addresses an important feature of the Indian elections: the ban imposed by the Election Commission of India on the conduct of exit polls until the last phase of voting is over. As the author explains, such polls have been banned till 13 May 2009, the last day of the polling. According to the paper, as a result of the ban on exit polls, newspapers, television channels and other media agencies have been projecting the likely outcomes of the polls through surveys conducted among specific samples of the electorate.