【New Delhi】The Lokniti-IBN national election tracker has predicted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) might win 22-40 seats out of the total 232 Lok Sabha seats in the eastern and southern states, except for Congress gains in Kerala and Karnataka. It puts the Congress tally at 36-72.
The poll, which projected Narendra Modi as the most preferred choice for Prime Minister across the states, also predicts BJP leads in Bihar and Jharkhand.
Regional bastions of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal and the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Orissa are predicted to remain unchallenged. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) appears to be making inroads in several states in the south as well as in Bihar and West Bengal with vote projections of two to three per cent.
○If Cong wins, Rahul will be PM: Chidambaram
【Davos】Rahul Gandhi will be the Prime Minister if Congress comes back to power. He has enough "fire in his belly" for the post, although it is unlikely that any party will get majority and the polls are likely to throw a 'very very fractured mandate'.
As India prepares for elections, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday also hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) terming its economic policies as retrograde and "blood-eyed" and asked why the opposition party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi never fielded a Muslim candidate.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting here, Chidambaram also took dig at the Aam Aadmi Party, saying there was no place for mob-democracy in India and the country was a party-based democracy where individuals cannot be bigger than a party.
【News source】
Lokniti-IBN survey predicts major gains for BJP in south, east in LS polls
If Cong wins, Rahul will be PM: Chidambaram
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