New Delhi: According to exit poll prediction of the Jammu and Kashmir polls by C-Voter the BJP could come second, winning seats at around 27 to 33. It gave the Congress four to 10 seats and the Omar Abdullah led National Conference eight to 14 seats, with others bagging two to eight seats.
The exit polls results by Axis APM for Jammu and Kashmir indicated that the PDP with 36 to 41 seats would fall short of the halfway mark in the state. It indicated that the BJP could bag 16 to 22 seats and put the NC and Congress each in the range of nine to 13 seats.
Chanakya did not hold exit polls for Jammu and Kashmir.
In Jharkhand where too the five-phase polls ended on Saturday Nielsen predicted that the BJP would bag 54 seats, the Congress nine and the JMM 10 in the House of 81.
Chankaya in its exit poll results for the state claimed the BJP could win as many as 61 seats, thus decimating all political rivals.
C-Voter pegged the BJP winning between 37 and 45 seats in the state. CICERO predicted the BJP would bag seats in the range of 37 to 43 in the state.
If the exit polls prove right, the BJP would be wresting another state from the UPA from the Congress which had an alliance with the JMM. The BJP bagged Maharashtra and Haryana recently from the Congress, thus making the electoral retreat of the UPA quite pronounced.
The Congress-led UPA is in power in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Kerala and Assam among the major states, besides a few smaller states in the Northeast.
The BJP-led NDA is in power in Punjab (with Shiromani Akali Dal, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra (with the Shiv Sena), Haryana, Goa and its ally Telugu Desam rules in Andhra Pradesh.
The counting of ballots for the five-phase polls in the states of Jharkhand Jammu and Kashmir which recorded historically high turnouts will be held on Tuesday.
