On Tuesday, National Conference (NC) Vice President Omar Abdullah stated that anyone who paid for or discussed exit polls deserved to be mocked and ridiculed. Abdullah's statement comes as he takes a commanding lead in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam and Ganderbal constituencies. 

Abdullah, in his post on X (formerly Twitter), wrote, "If you pay for exits polls or waste time discussing them you deserve all the jokes/memes/ridicule. There was a reason I called them a waste of time a few days ago."