North 24 Parganas, April 29 -- TMC candidate from Kamarhati Assembly Constituency Madan Mitra on Wednesday dismissed the exit polls after the pollsters projected a victory for the BJP in the West Bengal assembly elections, asserting that the BJP will be halved in 2026 and will be wiped out in the 2029 Lok Sabha elections.

Speaking with ANI, he reflected on the chances of the exit polls being inaccurate and noted them as "useless."

"What exit polls say turns out to be wrong. There used to be a joke in Bengal that when the weather office report said it would rain, it would be a hot day. They say the complete opposite. We are out on the roads... [The opposition will be] half in '26 and wiped out in '29. Exactly. Bengal has never won such a...