Earlier this morning, he expressed confidence that the NDA would win about 180 seats.
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That would pave the way for future critical state elections in Bengal and Assam next year and UP in 2017, in addition to seven other states that would go to polls over the next two years and determine the party’s strength in the Upper House or the Rajya Sabha.
Axis APM had also conducted the pre-poll survey for CNN IBN, which had forecast a comfortable 137 seats for the Grand Alliance. It had predicted 53 seats for the AAP.
The build-up and the five polling phases of the Bihar assembly elections have seen a bitter verbal battle between the two main protagonists – the Grand Alliance, comprising the Janata Dal (United), the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Congress, and the National Democratic Alliance, formed of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Lok Janshakti Party, the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party and the Hindustan Awam Morcha.
A year after he was swept to power in national polls, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi conceded defeat on Sunday in a regional election in Bihar, one of the country’s largest and poorest states. “This was not the case in Bihar, where Nitish Kumar had a governance track record most voters rated positively”. About 6 per cent more women voted than the men.
“This is a rejection of Prime Minister Modi, his arrogance and his policies”. In less than 24 hours, we will know the exact poll.
Union minister Prakash Javadekar sought to blame the BJP’s allies.
Non-BJP parties will get more confident that BJP can be defeated after its loss in Bihar, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram said today. Nitish Kumar also thanked Modi for his greetings. This is the indication of shape of things which is coming in Kerela.
The right to consume beef has become an election issue as well, with Modi and his political opponents trading barbs over it and the Election Commission reportedly investigating a newspaper advertisement by the BJP maligning an opposition candidate on the topic. “Nitish Kumar will run the government”.
However, news channel CNN-IBN had announced the “biggest exit poll” for the Bihar election but did not telecast it at the announced time on Thursday.
This may have been Modi’s last chance to win a state election before the spring of 2017.
Modi had led the NDA charge by holding over 30 rallies while Shah held 85-odd public meetings. The spread in terms of what to expect from these exit polls is quite awesome. “The whole country’s youth, its intellectuals, the Congress, is telling Modi to stop playing divisive politics and start work”.
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“This is not an outcome we expected”, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav said. The strategy appears to have failed in Bihar, where Mr. Modi’s development plank faced competition from Nitish Kumar’s reputation as Bihar’s “Development Man”. Perhaps, the presence of people from Bihar would have helped the BJP in Bihar elections. Despite finance minister Arun Jaitley’s offer of an olive branch to Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi this week, India’s oldest political party has refused to relent. “I would neither add to it nor subtract from that”, he added.
