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NDTV opinion poll: BJP and allies cross 272 mark

New Delhi: 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.

There is, however, one month and five phases of polling still to go before votes are counted on May 16, as all parties step up their campaigns in this crucial final leg of electioneering.  

The BJP had so far been projected as heading towards being the single largest party, but with its national alliance falling short of the majority mark. It seems to have only got better for the BJP as elections have neared.

In NDTV's February opinion poll Mr Modi's party was projected to get 196 seats, its NDA 230; the March opinion poll showed 214 for the BJP and 259 for the NDA.

But 275 is tight when a two per cent margin of error is factored in into the opinion poll's predictions and the BJP will have to sustain the pitch of its campaign in the next few days. 

The NDA crossing the magic 272 is heavily predicated on the BJP winning the 51 seats in UP that the latest opinion poll shows it winning.  

If the alliance does not reach 272, it will have to seek more allies from among regional players like J Jayalalithaa, who is expected to win a tidy number of seats in Tamil Nadu, or even Mamata Banerjee, who is projected to get a lion's share of West Bengal's 42 seats. 

Regional heavyweights like these are reportedly eyeing a bargaining position in government formation at the Centre. 

New survey predicts 'spectacular BJP win' NDA 259+

The BJP and its allies are set to bag 259 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, placing them far ahead of the Congress-led UPA that is projected to win 123 seats, according to a survey released on Friday.

The BJP was projected to bag 214 seats and the Congress 104, the poll by NDTV showed.
It projected a "spectacular win" for the BJP in the politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, where the party has fielded its prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi.

The BJP is expected to win 53 of the state's 80 seats, compared to just 10 in the 2009 polls.

Uttar Pradesh holds the key to power at the Centre and the BJP's best performance so far in the state was in the 1998 polls, when it bagged 57 seats.

BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is delivering his party its biggest electoral success ever while the Congress stares at possibly its worst result in the coming elections, according to two opinion poll

According to a pre-poll survey by NDTV, the BJP and its allies are expected to win 259 seats -this is the highest any recent poll has given the NDA. The BJP itself is slated to win 214 seats. The Congress and its allies are estimated to win 123 seats. The NDA's vote share is 32.9% while the UPA's vote share is 26.9%.

The game-changer, according to NDTV, is UP, where the BJP has been a big gainer. The poll has given the party and its allies 53 out of 80 seats in the state. The SP is estimated to win 13 seats while both the Congress and the BSP are expected to bag 7 seats each.

The CNN-IBN-The Week survey has given the NDA 234-246 seats, with the BJP bagging between 206 and 218. The Congress is predicted to win 94-106 seats, with the UPA tally hovering between 111 and 123. 

BJP to win 5-7 lok Sabha seats in Delhi, jolt for AAP: Survey

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is all set face humiliating defeat in Delhi in the Lok Sabha Elections 2014, according to a poll survey.

A latest poll survey conducted by a news channel claims that Arvind Kejriwal's charm has received massive hit after his exit from the Delhi government. The survey predicts massive Modi wave in Delhi, which is certainly a bad news for Aam Aadmi Party. After impressive performance in Delhi Assembly elections, AAP's popularity has witnessed massive downfall.

The survey predicts that Narendra Modi-led BJP is expected to win 5-7 seats while AAP may win two seats while Congress is likely to get just one in the Lok Sabha polls.

Survey claims that BJP may get 41 percent votes while AAP and Congress are expected to bag 28 and 23 percent votes in the upcoming general elections.

The survey further says, around 44 percent voters want to see Modi as PM of India while 24 percent favour Kejriwal for the top post. Just 19 percent voters want to see Rahul Gandhi as the next Prime Minister. 

In the survey, around 1188 people across the 40 assembly seats shared their opinion.

Delhi's 38 percent youth voters favour BJP while 31 percent align with Kejriwal.

In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, Congress had won all the seven seats and the vote percent was 53.

In the last survey conducted in December 2013, BJP was expected to get 33 percent vote.

The voting for Delhi Lok Sabha seats will be held on April 10, 2014.

Lok Sabha polls 2014: NDA to get 234-246 seats, says survey Read more at:

NEW DELHI: As the opinion polls wind up before the real polling begins on Monday, the pollsters have promised a victory for BJP-led National Democratic Alliance and a smooth takeover of the next government by Narendra Modi. A survey conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) on Friday claimed that NDA minus Telugu Desam Party will win 246 seats.

TDP, whose tie-up with BJP was not clinched till the survey was done, is expected to win at the most 19 seats, thus taking the total NDA tally to 265, just seven short of the simple majority of 272.
The survey predicts a windfall of 218 seats for BJP, over 35 seats more than its previous best of 182 in 1998 and 1999.

The best that Congress can hope for is just 106 seats, 100 seats less than its tally in 2009. The ruling UPA as a whole is expected to win just 123 seats, a drastic fall from a high of 228.

The pollsters seem to have absolute clarity about the leadership too. They say Modi has an approval rating of 34% while just 15% have polled for Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi.

While Congress is expected to lose votes across rural and urban India, BJP is shown to surge in both the segments taking its vote share to a high of 35%, nearly double the 18.8% it garnered in the 2009 elections. Corruption, according to the survey, remains the biggest issue with 73% respondents feeling that UPA is vesry corrupt.

Prosperity comes only when Lotus Blooms

The founder of Art of Living foundation and spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Wednesday asked his followers to vote for change and a graft-free nation.

Reminding his followers of the intrinsic relationship between wealth and the lotus in Hindu mythology, the spiritual leader urged them to vote for BJP.

“Lakshmi kamal pe hi baith ke aati hai (The goddess of wealth rides only on lotus),” Sri Sri said addressing a gathering in Delhi.

He said that condition of our country is very bad and people should vote for change.

Expressing concern over the state of India’s economy and politics, he said, “Desh ventilator pe hai. Isko bachana hai. (The country is on a ventilator. We must save it)”

Sri Sri has earlier endorsed the candidature of BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi for the top job. He praised the impressive developmental work of Gujarat Chief Minister Modi in his State and asked the people to vote for an experienced party.

BJP-led NDA to win 233 seats, ABP-Nielsen Opinion Poll.

New Delhi: If Lok Sabha elections were to be held today, Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party will emerge as the front-runner, according to ABP News-Nielsen National Poll.
The latest pre-poll survey predicts a big surge for BJP from the last election, taking the seat count for the National Democratic Alliance that it leads to 233. That compares with 159 Lok Sabha seats for NDA in 2009.
                  The Opinion Poll has found that NDA is set to win 233 seats in the 543-seat parliament while the incumbent UPA-II government is projected to win mere 119 seats.

According to the projection, BJP alone will get 209 (won 116 seats in 2009) seats. The Congress is projected to get only 91 (won 206 seats in 2009) seats--115 less than 2009 seat position in the Lower House.
The non-UPA and non-NDA parties seem to be holding a key share of national vote bank, reveals the survey.
The poll forecast that the BJP would win the lion's share of the vote in many of the big states that typically decide the fate of the polls.

Let’s look at how these states are faring in the Survey conducted 
SOUTH: 134 seats

Karnataka: 15 seats from Karnataka’s 28 could go BJP’s way while 10 seats likely to be won by Congress. JD(S) 3.

Kerala: In Kerala, CPM is forecast to win 5 seats, while Congress could add 8 seats to its kitty out of the 20.

Tamil Nadu: Jayalalithaa’s AIADMK is seen winning 21 seats out of 39 in Tamil Nadu. DMK gets 10. Congress may win only 1 seat in Tamil Nadu.

Andhra Pradesh: Out of 42, 9 seats could go to Congress. TDP 7, TRS 7, YSRC 17. AIMIM to get 1 seat here. Others 1
Goa: Out of 2, Congress and BJP get one seat each here
EAST: 142 seats
Bihar: BJP is predicted to emerge as the largest party in Bihar, with 19 (won 12 seats in 2009) of the state's 40 seats. Lalu’s RJD gets 10. JD-U gets 6. Congress 2. LJP 2. Others 1.
Assam: Out of the 14 seats in Assam, 8 seats could be captured by the Congress. AGP 1, BJP 3, BPF 1. AUDF 1.
West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress is set to win 28 (won 19 seats in 2009) seats outs of 42, CPM could hold on to 7 here while Congress may latch on to 2 in West Bengal. CPI 2, AIFB 1, BJP 1, RSP 1.
Orissa: BJD is set to win 17 out of 21 seats in Orissa, 2 go to the BJP. Congress 2.
Jharkhand: Out of 14 LS seats here, BJP is seen doing well. It could win 10 seats. JMM 1, Congress 1. Others 2.

WEST: 116 seats

Maharashtra: BJP to win 19 (won 9 in 2009) of the 48 seats in Maharashtra. 8 seats go to Congress in Maharashtra while NCP gets 5 seats. Shiv Sena gets 12 (won 11 in 2009) here. MNS 1, Others 3.

Madhya Pradesh: BJP could bag 23 of Madhya Pradesh’s 29 seats. Congress to manage just 5. BSP 1.

Gujarat: BJP to capture 21 out 26 seats from PM nominee Narendra Modi’s home turf Gujarat. Congress to manage just 5 each in the two states.

Chhattisgarh: 9 out of 11 seats here for the BJP. Congress gets 2.
NORTH: 151 seats

Uttarakhand: 5 out of 5 here for the BJPUttar Pradesh: Of the total 80 seats in UP, 11 are likely to go to the Congress-RLD combine, 38 to BJP, 17 to BSP, 12 to SP, 1 to AAP and 1 to Others.

Rajasthan: Rajasthan again where BJP is in power could give 20 seats to the party from the state’s electoral share. Congress set to win 5 here.Punjab: In Punjab (13 seats), BJP is likely to get 2 seats. Congress could get 6 seats while Shiromani Akali Dal 5.

Delhi: Debutant AAP could get 3 seats out of 7. BJP likely to get 3 while Congress projected to win 1.Haryana: BJP likely to win 9 out of 10 seats. One goes to Congress.
Himachal Pradesh: BJP gets 4 out of 4 here. Congress routed.

Chandigarh: AAP sweeps the single seat available here.

Jammu and Kashmir: UPA gets 3 here. BJP, PDP and others 1 each.NDA’s vote share percentage is seen at 32% while UPA’s is projected at 26%. Left has 5% while Others take around 37% overall.

Figure below displays the break-up of seats:

UPA 119: East 22 (142) North 27 (151), South 35 (134), West 25 (116)


NDA 233: East 37 (142), North 87 (151), South 21 (134), West 86 (116)

Left 23: East 14 (142), North 0 (151), South 9 (134), West 0 (116)
Others 170: East 59 (142), North 37 (151), South 69 (134), West 6 (116)
The Survey was conducted between March 9- March 16, 2014. More than 29,000 people across the country were interviewed for the poll.

Want Narendra Modi as PM, says Pawan Kalyan

Hyderabad: While asking his fans to vote for any party of their choice, Jana Sena founder and actor Pawan Kalyan, expressed his desire to see Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi become the next Prime Minister.

Addressing his first public meeting in Visakhapatnam on Thursday after launching his outfit a few days ago, Pawan Kalyan also did justice to the lobby that worked to win his support for the BJP-TDP alliance.

He said that he had opted not to contest the polls as he did not want to split votes. Though not directly naming the Telugu Desam, he said that the people were free to elect a party which they think would develop the new state and new capital.

Without naming YSR Congress chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, he said, “The Congress allowed people here to loot thousands of crores of public money but later used the CBI against them and even got them arrested,” adding that the Congress facilitated bail once an understanding was reached.”

The Jana Sena chief added that honest officers who pursued the corruption case with vigour were let down by the Centre, and had to wait nine months for a posting. The reference was to former CBI director V. Lakshminarayana, who investigated the case.In an attempt to appease his brother and Union minister K. Chiranjeevi and his fan base, Pawan Kalyan sought to defend Praja Rajyam’s merger with the Congress.

“Some MLAs might have forced him to merge the party. It is not his fault,” he said, adding that he thought that the merger would benefit the state which was in turmoil.

He praised the BJP for making its stand on the division of the state clear through the Kakinada resolution of one vote and two states. However, he conveniently ignored the fact that the BJP kept its resolution under wraps because of political compulsions with its NDA partner, the Telugu Desam.

Apparently to keep the Majlis, which did not even spare Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy for offering post-poll support to Mr Modi, in good humour, Pawan Kalyan said that the migrants in Telangana, especially those in Hyderabad, must support the Majlis.

He said that the Owaisi brothers provided a sense of security to the Seemandhra people. In reality, the Majlis opposed joint capital and special powers to the Governor which many other organisations from Seemandhra wished for.

Narendra Modi most popular for PM's post: Zee-Taleem Poll Survey

Who is best suited PM of India for the 2014 : Election survey

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has emerged as the favourite choice for the post of country's next PM in a pre-poll survey conducted by Zee Media Corp commissioned through Taleem Research Foundation. Congress party scion Rahul Gandhi emerged as the second most-preferred candidate for the PM's post. 

When asked “In your opinion who would be best Prime Minister..?”, as many as 46.1 percent respondents voted for Narendra Modi while 21.2 percent voted for Rahul Gandhi
In case of Jammu & Kashmir there very few voters (6.7 percent) who indicated their preference for Narendra Modi as prime minister. Similar was the case for Kerala (12.8 percent). 

In case of Rahul Gandhi, in Gujarat (home state of Narendra Modi), highest percentage (40.8 percent) of voters thought Rahul Gandhi was the best prime ministerial candidate. 
Other names mentioned by small number were Arvind Kejriwal (4.2 percent), Mayawati (2.9 percent), Mulayam Singh Yadav (2.2 percent) and Mamta Banerjee (2.0 percent). All other names mentioned garnered below 2.0 percent votes. The important point to be noted is that as much as 17.1 percent voters voted for the “Can’t say” option for this question.

Muslim Votes and Narendra Modi 

The voters were asked “BJP would get more votes if Narendra Modi was not declared as a Prime Ministerial candidate”. Surprisingly, only about one-fourth or 25.8 percent voters thought so, whereas 34.6 percent voters did not think so. Four out of ten or 39.6 percent responded “Can’t say” thereby indicating that Narendra Modi’s candidature for the prime minister's post would not affect the voting pattern of Muslim voters.

63 per cent Indians favour BJP in 2014 Lok Sabha polls, says US-based Pew Research Center survey.

WASHINGTON: More than three-fifths of Indian voters favour the opposition BJP in the upcoming general elections as against less than one-fifth for the ruling Congress, a major American survey released today said.

"With the Indian parliamentary elections just weeks away, the Indian public, by a margin of more than three-to-one, would prefer the Hindu-nationalist opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to lead the next Indian government rather than the Indian National Congress (INC), which heads the current left-of-centre governing coalition," Pew Research said.

While the survey in which BJP is preferred by 63 per cent of the respondents against 19 per cent for the ruling Congress does not project the number of seats the two parties would get in the polls, Pew saidNarendra Modi, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, is more popular than the putative Congress candidateRahul Gandhi.

The Pew Research Centre survey was conducted between December 7, 2013 and January 12, 2014 and included face-to-face interviews with 2,464 randomly selected adults, in states and territories that are home to roughly 91 per cent of the Indian population.

The margin of error is 3.8 per cent. According to the survey, just 29 per cent of Indians are satisfied with the way things are going in India today; 70 per cent are dissatisfied.

More than six-in-ten Indians (63 per cent) prefer the BJP to lead the next Indian national government. Just two-in-ten (19 per cent) pick the Congress. Other parties have the support of 12 per cent of the public.

BJP backing is consistent across age groups. Support is almost equal between rural (64 per cent) and urban (60 per cent) Indians.

"More than six-in-ten Indians (63 per cent) prefer the BJP to lead the next Indian national government. Just two-in-ten (19 per cent) pick the Indian National Congress. Other parties have the support of 12 per cent of the public. BJP backing is consistent across age groups. And support is almost equal between rural (64 per cent) and urban (60 per cent) Indians," the survey said.

Northern states - Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and Delhi - which together are home to more than 400 million people, give the BJP its highest level of support, with 74 per cent saying they want it to lead the next government.

"The party's weakest backing (54 per cent) is in the western states of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat (led by Modi as chief minister). Congress' strongest regional support (30 per cent) is in the eastern states of Odisha, Bihar, West Bengal and Jharkhand, among India's poorest areas and home to 270 million people," Pew said.

A majority says the BJP (58 per cent) is likely to be more successful than the Congress (20 per cent) in creating employment opportunities in the future.

"A similar proportion of the Indian public (56 per cent) say BJP would do a better job than Congress (20 per cent) in reducing terrorism. There is equal belief (56 per cent) that the BJP will do more to combat corruption. Only 17 per cent say Congress would do a better job dealing with this issue," Pew said.

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