Tamil Nadu | "They Were Laughing At Us For Predicting Vijay's Victory": Axis My India Chief To NDTV

Axis My India's Pradeep Gupta on Monday told NDTV that people were "laughing" at them when they predicted that actor-politician Vijay's TVK would win the Tamil Nadu assembly elections. Axis My India was the only polling agency that had projected a victory for TVK in the exit polls, predicting about 98 to 120 seats for the debutant party. The TVK, or the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, looks set for a surprise electoral show, leading in more than 100 seats after several rounds of counting of votes polled in the April 23 state assembly elections. "This is the victory of data science," Gupta told NDTV. "You would see why the other polling agencies could not predict or could not capture the mood on the ground because we at Axis My India go to all the seats all the time," he said.