BJP confident of winning 166 seats

NEW DELHI: BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad claimed that if ���secularism��� was the glue for parties to consolidate against BJP, ���anti-Congressism ��� of some parties would push them towards the NDA camp. Prasad said internal surveys showed the BJP winning 166 seats and NDA emerging victorious in 218 constituencies .

Contending that its survey was the most credible, he said the same agency had given BJP 50 seats in the 2007 UP assembly elections whereas TV channels had showed the party winning between 90 and 100 seats. Prasad said the survey conducted by BJP showed Congress gaining only in Kerala, Punjab and Rajasthan and faring badly in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

BJP is expected to gain in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Orissa and Karnataka, he said, adding that the party was looking forward to some ���very dramatic ��� results in its favour in Uttar Pradesh.
���BJP will emerge the single largest party and BJP-led NDA will get a majority or will fall short by a small margin in which case I am confident that other political parties will support us,��� BJP chief Rajnath Singh told reporters after the meeting.