Exit Polls predict a close result in Bihar

“There is no question of the verdict in Bihar assembly polls being a referendum on the Narendra Modi government’s performance”. BJP president Amit Shah, meanwhile, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday on the conclusion of polling in Bihar.

“Our opponents left no stone unturned in spreading rumors to divide the voters on caste and religious lines”.

The controversies and the killing and provocation in the name of cow and beef, however, backfired, according to the exit polls released after the polling. “We salute them for this”.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, while most predicted a close contest, Chanakya had gone ahead and said the BJP alone would get a majority, with at least 277 seats. The Union Minister said that the NDA had run a positive campaign on development agenda all through the elections and charged the grand alliance with carrying out a misinformation campaign against NDA by resorting to diversionary issues.

Polling in the five-phased Bihar Assembly polls ended on Thursday as voters sealed the fates of 243-member house. Others have been given five seats (plus minus three). The survey said the NDA would get 120 seats, two short of the number required for a majority, and predicted 117 seats for the Nitish-Lalu alliance. The vote count will take place on Sunday. The JD(U), has been able to have 20 seats, last time it was with BJP and Lalu prasad’s RJD had 8 seats, Congress had 3, Lok Janshakti Party had 2 and Independent had just 1.

India TV-C Voter exit polls gave NDA 111 seats, Mahagathbandhan 122, while others were slated to get 10 seats.

We are at an election rally for Mr Modi, who has been the star campaigner for his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Bihar.

Contradicting the same sharply, the News X, predicted only 90-100 for the BJP and up to 140 for the Grand Alliance.

Exit polls in Bihar, a state with more people than Germany, were inconclusive: Four showed Modi’s opponents winning the most seats, while two – including the most accurate in last year’s national election – showed Modi out in front.

The exit poll conducted by News Nation show grand alliance is projected to win 120-124 seats while NDA’s tally at 115-119.

Even earlier than the exit polls have been telecast, JD-D spokesman T.M. Tyagi informed IANS in Patna that the Grand Alliance was assured of profitable a “stupendous mandate”.

Despite widespread apprehensions, the staggered election handed off peacefully, even in areas thought-about to be strongholds of Maoists who had referred to as for an election boycott.

Stock markets slid on Thursday with the Nifty closing below the psychologically crucial 8,000-mark after the US Federal Reserve reiterated the likelihood of a rate hike in December.

Live results from the Bihar 2015 election along with full exit polls can be found here.