evidence: As soon as the last voting ballot was closed, exit polls began surfacing on various media and research platforms. So what exactly are election exit polls? In a nutshell, they are surveys where voters are asked who they cast their vote for, right after they have left the polling station. They differ from opinion polls in that they are conducted after the vote has been cast. Owing to discrepancies in the methods of sampling and the survey itself, many critics consider exit and opinion polls to be nothing more than election entertainment. In fact, India’s law prohibits anyone from conducting exit polls from the time the first voting booth opens until half an hour after the final phase of voting to avoid voter swaying. The first serious attempts at exit polling began in the late 1960s in India. By the 1980s, celebrity-like psephologists including Prannoy Roy, fine-tuned the art and science of exit polling to fit a behemoth democracy like India. The Indian political scenario has always had numerous coalitions and multi-party alliances making it extremely difficult to predict election results. At the time of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the ruling mandate was with the National Democratic Alliance or NDA, which was a coalition between the Bharatiya Janata Party and thirteen other parties. At the same time, the opposition was held by the United Progressive Alliance or the UPA, a coalition of the Indian National Congress and other left leaning parties.