BJP in driver's seat: Exit polls

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New Delhi - In Haryana, the extent of a BJP win was projected to be even more dominant.

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Published: Wed 23 Oct 2019, 12:38 AM

The BJP appeared set to retain power with a bigger mandate in Maharashtra, where it is in alliance with the Shiv Sena, and Haryana, as exit polls forecast an emphatic victory for the party in the two states and rout for its rivals led by the Congress.
Exit polls, broadcast soon after the polling ended, varied widely in their projection of seats for the rival alliances but an emphatic victory with more than two-third seats for the BJP-led NDA in Maharashtra and Haryana was their common theme.
The India Today-Axis exit poll projected 166-194 seats for the BJP-Shiv Sena in the 288-member Maharashtra assembly and 72-90 for the Congress-NCP alliance.
The exit poll by News18-IPSOS gave the BJP a near-majority on its own by predicting a whopping 142 seats for the party and 102 for its ally Shiv Sena. The Congress and NCP will bag 17 and 22 seats only, it has predicted.
The ABP-C Voter predicted 204 seats for the BJP-Shiv Sena and 69 for the Congress-NCP while the corresponding figures by Times Now were 230 and 48.
In Haryana, the extent of a BJP win was projected to be even more dominant.
The ABP-C Voter forecast 72 and eight seats for the BJP and the Congress respectively. The CNN-IPSOS projected 75 and 10 seats for the two parties respectively.
The Times Now survey gave the BJP and the Congress 71 and 11 seats, respectively.
The poll of polls brought out by the NDA gave the BJP and the Congress 66 and 14 seats, respectively in Haryana, and 211 and 64 for the saffron alliance and the Congress-NCP in Maharashtra.
BJP's trump card
The BJP had brought the issue of Article 370 nullification and national security at the centre of its campaign with development works by its state governments playing the second fiddle.
In 2014 the BJP and the Sena had won 122 seats and 63 seats, respectively followed by 42 and 41 seats by the Congress and the NCP. All four parties had contested independently in the previous assembly polls.
In Haryana, the BJP had won 47 followed by INLD's 19 and 15 of the Congress.
Elections were held in 90 assembly constituencies in Haryana on Monday, with 1,169 candidates including 105 women of various political outfits, contesting the election.
Prominent figures fighting elections include Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, JJP''s Dushyant Chautala and INLD''s Abhay Singh Chautala.
The BJP, led by Khattar, has set a target of winning 75 seats, while the Congress was hoping to make a comeback following a change in guard in the state.


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