NDTV opinion poll: Karnataka to bring some cheer to Congress

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New Delhi, April 14: NDTV’s opinion poll shows that Karnataka is one of the few states where the Congress is gaining. The party is expected to win 14 of the state’s 28 seats, eight more than its 2009 tally.

 

The BJP, which had put up a stellar performance in 2009 by bagging 19 seats, is expected to lose 7 seats in the state, and end up with a dozen seats only. The BJP had ceded power to the Congress in Karnataka in the assembly polls held last year.

HD Deve Gowda’s Janata Dal (Secular) is likely to win two seats. It had won three in the general election held five years ago.

 

NDTV opinion poll: BJP and allies cross 272 mark

 

NDTV’s latest opinion poll shows the BJP and its allies collecting 275 seats, three more than needed to form the government.

The BJP, led by prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, gets 226 seats, the party’s strongest performance ever and a very long way from the two it had won in 1984.

 

With some canny late alliances like the one with the Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh, the BJP seems to have gained much ground in the penultimate lap of the general elections.

If this will be the BJP’s best performance ever, its main rival the Congress, which has ruled straight for the last 10 years at the head of the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) registers a low point in its history. The party has never gone below 100, this time it is likely to dip to 92, the NDTV opinion poll shows.

Together with its allies, the Congress could touch a meagre 111, three short of it worst solo performance of 114 seats in 1999.