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Snapshot of the day

October 7, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

Exit polls published on Saturday predict a comfortable win for the Congress in Haryana, but the forecast is murkier in Jammu and Kashmir, where pollsters say the Congress-National Conference bloc will emerge the largest but may not cross the majority mark of 46 – or 48, if we’re counting the five people the lieutenant governor will nominate to the assembly, presumably picking individuals chosen by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and not the cabinet of the elected government. Peerzada