A reporters’ podcast about what made news and what shouldn’t have.
This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Shivnarayan Rajpurohit and Prateek Goyal to dissect the fallout of exit polls on the stock market.
As the Lok Sabha results starkly contrasted the exit polls – most of which were bullish on the Narendra Modi-led BJP – the stock markets hit an all-time high and then crashed, between June 1 and June 4. The panel throws light on the influence of exit polls, stock manipulation malpractices, and the media’s role as pollsters.
The reporters also delve into the mandate in Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh, and the possible reasons that went against the BJP and the factors that worked in favour of the Congress.
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Timecodes
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:24 - Exit Polls
00:13:39 - Election Results
00:51:28 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Shivnarayan Rajpurohit
Prateek Goyal
Basant Kumar
Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Anil Kumar.