In what is going to certainly uplift the spirits in the grand old party, a majority of the exit polls predict a Congress victory in the two northern states currently ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) New Delhi December 7, 2018 9:03 pm
People wait in multiple queues to cast their votes for the state assembly elections at a polling station, in Jaipur on Dec 7, 2018.
In what is going to certainly uplift the spirits in the grand old party, a majority of the exit polls predict a Congress victory in the two northern states currently ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The exit polls of the assembly elections in five states are out, and the Congress appears to be certainly ending Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje’s reign in Rajasthan. And if the exit polls are right then the grand old party might pull the Chief Ministerial chair from under Shivraj Singh Chauhan in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh too.
Chhattisgarh might be the only state that the BJP will be able to retain.
Madhya Pradesh – Exit polls give Congress the edge
In 230-seat assembly in Madhya Pradesh, which the BJP has been holding since 2003, the Congress might win 104-122 seats according to India Today-Axis poll, thus narrowly surpassing the majority mark of 116. The BJP got 102-120 seats and others might get 4-11 seats.
Times Now-CNX, on the other hand, predicts a thumping BJP victory in MP with 126 seats as against 89 of Congress.
Prasanta Patnaik