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'BJP to retain Uttarakhand, Congress slightly
ahead in Punjab'
Sunday March 04, 2012 10:15:20 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will win a majority in Uttarakhand
while Punjab will see a tight race with the Shiromani Akali
Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party (SAD-BJP) combine closely following
Congresss near the half-way mark, the Star News-A C Nielsen exit
poll said Sunday.
According to a press release, the exit poll predicts that the
Congress will have a slight edge over the SAD-BJP with 58 seats in
the 117 member Punjab assembly. The ruling alliance is predicted
to get 56 seats.
The exit poll says Manpreet Badal's People's Party of Punjab (PPP)
is likely to get two seats and play a key role in government
formation in Punjab where the half-way mark is 59. The Congress
had won 44 seats in the 2007 polls and the SAD-BJP had won 67
seats.
The exit polls predicts that in Uttarakhand, both the BJP and
Congress will gain in numbers and the difference in seats will
narrow down to seven.
It predicts 29 seats for the Congress, up from 21 it won in 2007
and 36 for the BJP from 35 it won in the last polls.
On Saturday, the Star News-Nielsen exit poll on Uttar Pradesh had
predicted that Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party will be close
to the half-way mark of 202 with 183 seats. It had predicted that
the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) would get 83 seats, followed
by BJP with 71 and Congress-Rashtriya Lok Dal with 62.
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