Delhi polls: Four out of five new opinion polls give BJP majority

Arvind Kejriwal is ahead of Kiran Bedi as the preferred choice for CM with 45% people voting for him against 33% for Bedi.

By TNN | Updated: Feb 05, 2015, 10.07 AM IST

Delhi polls: Four out of five new opinion polls give BJP majority

NEW DELHI: A day after five opinion polls put AAP in the driver's seat in the Delhi polls, another five opinion polls on Wednesday found BJP edging ahead in the race to the 70-member assembly.

As many as four surveys predicted BJP to get a clear majority. Surveys by India TV-C Voter, The Week-IMBR, IBN 7-Data Mineria and Zee-Taleem Research Foundation (TRF) gave BJP 36 out of 70 seats. News Nation, on the other hand, predicted a hung assembly with BJP winning 31-35 seats with AAP notching 30-34 in a neck-and-neck contest.

It, however, put Arvind Kejriwal ahead of Kiran Bedi as the preferred choice for CM with 45% people voting for him against 33% for Bedi.

The India TV-C Voter poll gave AAP 31 seats and Congress just two, while The Week-IMBR predicted 29 seats for AAP and four for Congress. Zee TV-TRF gave a range of 32-36 seats for the BJP while AAP was expected to get 30-34 seats. It predicted just four seats for Congress.

IBN 7-Data Mineria's survey gave AAP only 27 seats, predicting seven seats for Congress. But News Nation predicted no more than three-five seats for Congress with one likely to be won by another party.

The surveys came on a day that an internal survey by AAP claimed a clear majority for it, giving itself 51 seats followed by 15 for BJP and four for Congress. AAP's Yogendra Yadav, a psephologist, said in the best case scenario, AAP may get 57 seats and in the worst, at least 44 seats.

The India Today-Cicero pre-poll survey on Tuesday had projected AAP would get 38-46 seats and BJP 19-25 seats. Congress was given only 3-7 seats. An average of the five surveys declared on Monday found AAP forming the government with clear majority of 36 seats and BJP securing 30.

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Text: Nidhi Sharma, ET Bureau

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