Latest polls predict rout for Congress

The Congress and UPA are facing decimation in a wide swathe of states from Delhi and Rajasthan in the north to Bihar and Jharkhand in the east, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in the centre, Maharashtra in the west and Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in the south. 

    In sharp contrast, BJP and its allies are riding high in almost all these states, with TN being an exceptional case of neither major alliance doing well, according to an opinion poll done for a TV channel. 
    The poll by Hansa Research for NDTV and released on Thursday estimated that BJP would win 21 of 25 seats in Rajasthan, 25 of 29 seats in MP, eight of 11 seats in Chhattisgarh, 10 of 14 seats in Jharkhand, 16 of 28 seats in Karnataka and four of seven in Delhi. Thus, in these six states combined, the party would bag 84 out of 114 seats on its own. The BJP with its allies would win 21 of Bihar’s 40 seats, 36 of Maharashtra’s 48, 16 of AP’s 42 and three of Tamil Nadu’s 39, leading to a total of 76 out of 169 seats in these four states. 
    As against this, the poll predicts that Congress will win just 29 seats in AP, TN, Karnataka, MP, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Delhi put together, while the party and its allies will win 25 seats in Bihar, Jharkhand and Maharashtra. In short, the overall tally in all of these states put together would be 160 for NDA and a mere 54 for UPA. 
    In TN, the poll predicts AIADMK will win 25, the DMK alliance 11 and the BJP alliance three seats, leaving Congress facing a blank slate. 
    In Andhra, there would be two distinctly different battles — mainly between TDPBJP and YSR Congress in Seemandhra and between Congress and TRS in Telengana. 
    In Maharashtra, NDA will win 36 seats and UPA just 10, the poll predicted. In Bihar, the NDA gets 21, the UPA 11.