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Lok Sabha elections 2019: Will NDA overcome citizenship bill row?

New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent
May 20, 2019 07:50 PM IST

Today’s Chanakya-News24 projected seven to 13 seats for the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Assam, which has 14 Lok Sabha seats.

Exit polls on Sunday predicted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will increase its tally of Lok Sabha seats in the northeast.

Exit polls on Sunday predicted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will increase its tally of Lok Sabha seats in the northeast.(REUTERS)
Exit polls on Sunday predicted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will increase its tally of Lok Sabha seats in the northeast.(REUTERS)

News24-Today’s Chanakya projected seven to 13 seats for the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Assam, which has 14 Lok Sabha seats. It projected 0 to six seats for the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA).

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Times Now-VMR has predicted the NDA will win six seats in Assam, and UPA will bag seven and others 1. NDTV’s poll of polls predicted the BJP-led alliance was likely to win nine seats and the Congress four in Assam.

ABP News-Nielsen and News18-IPSOS have made projections for the region’s all 25 seats.

News18-IPSOS gave the NDA 17 to 19 seats and the UPA 4 to 6. ABP predicted 13 seats for NDA in the region and six for the UPA.

The BJP and Congress won eight seats each in the region in 2014 while regional parties managed to get nine.

Assam minister and BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma said the media overestimated protests against the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the region.

“In spite of it, the BJP won the panchayat polls in December. Congress tried to make it an issue and yet people voted for us. All along, I have maintained that Assam supports the bill. This is a vote for the Prime Minister [Narendra Modi], for development, and a vote against the politics of appeasement,” Sarma said.

Congress’s Assam president, Ripun Bora, dismissed the exit polls as “unscientific”. “They are not foolproof and not free from human bias. The sample size of a handful is generalised to project the preference of 15-17 lakh voters. The public perception is with Congress and we are waiting for May 23 [when the election results would be declared.”

Here is the look at the numbers:

 

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