Book Talk with Pradeep Gupta, Axis My India: 'How India Votes: And What it Means' (Event recording)

Getting exit polls right isn't easy, especially in a diverse land like #India.

So, when a psephologist has a track record of getting 48 out of 52 exit polls right, you just have to doff your hat.

Watch Nidhi Razdan interview India's leading psephologist and CMD of Axis My India, Pradeep Gupta on his new book, "How India Votes: And What it Means", and other insights regarding elections in India.

The event was held on May 17, 2021, and was part of Kautilya's #LetsTalkPolicy series.

[adityajoshi]

Oh, Nidhi ma'am of Harvard is here. What a privilege it is to have her .

[rahulchaudhary]

Prateek Gupta you have changed my mind today. I was watching your interview with karan thapar the other day and he was not ready to listen to your reasoning. More people need to watch this.

[rlpbdut]

00:02 Pradeep Gupta discusses the intricacies of Indian elections.
04:23 Discussion on recent election results and political dynamics
16:01 Language issues and polarization in Indian politics
20:09 The discussion covers various election-related topics.
25:41 Importance of regional parties in Indian politics
29:11 BJP's challenges in making inroads into certain states
34:48 Government initiatives and political developments in Uttar Pradesh
37:25 Analysis of BJP's performance in different constituencies
43:12 Effective communication strategy for leaders during elections
45:11 Youth voting and rural-urban divide in India
51:07 Media role in political reporting
54:45 Importance of NOTA in elections

[rohansrivastava]

Good interview, Pradeep Gupta exposed his shallow methodology

[nadpat]

hello ! you can active sous titre in french please, is not fonction ! i dont speack english. Thank you so much !

[rohitanand]

Didn’t you guys get Bihar wrong in 2020?

[syedkhamar]

Pradeep Gupta is clearly acting smart here. Eg. Odisha has < 2% Muslims, so polarization can't work there.

[chinmaykrovvidi]

This fellow is the most overrated and shallow pollster in India today.Most of the times he has been completely off the mark in votes shares.CSDS, Todays Chanakya and for few years even CVoter had got some elections rights but never blew their own trumpet like this