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1st LD Writethru: Indian anti-graft party poised to win Delhi polls

Xinhua, February 7, 2015 Adjust font size:

In what could be a setback for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, all the exit polls Saturday predicted a clear majority for the anti-graft Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Delhi assembly elections.

The AAP is most likely to win between 31 and a stunning 53 seats in the 70-seat assembly, exit polls said at the end of voting.

The ABP-Nielsen survey gave the AAP of former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal 39 seats and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Modi 28 seats.

Any party will need at least 36 seats to form a government in Delhi.

The Times Now-C-Voter survey said the AAP was poised to win 31 to 39 seats and the BJP 27 to 35. The India Today-Cicero put the AAP tally at 35 to 43 seats and of the BJP at 23 to 29, while the NDTV survey said the AAP could win 38 seats and the BJP 29. The Axis-APM poll credited 53 seats to the AAP and 17 to the BJP.

All exit polls put the Congress party as legging far behind the two parties, giving it zero to four seats, the worst debacle for the party in Delhi since independence. Endi