Gujarat has 182 seats; the BJP will get 112 seats, four less than what it won last time, says the aggregated forecast.
The poll of polls gives 70 seats to the Congress.
The BJP will win 109 of Gujarat's 182 seats is the forecast at this time by TV channel Times Now; the Congress gets 70. The forecast is nearly mirrored by that of the C-Voter-Republic poll which gives the BJP 108 seats and assigns 74 to the Congress. News X shows the BJP winning 110-120 seats. India Today shows the BJP winning 99-113 seats; News Nation gives the party 124-128 seats.
Himachal Pradesh, with a total of 68 seats, is easily won by the BJP, say different exit polls. Their aggregate -the poll of exit polls - shows the BJP winning 49 of the hill state's 68 seats, which means the Congress has been ousted from yet another state that it governed.
Health warning: these polls often get it wrong.
Counting is on Monday for both Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh.
The BJP has governed Gujarat for 22 years in a row. The campaign this year for the opposition has been led by Congress President Rahul Gandhi and has involved acrid attacks and counters. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has alleged that senior Congress leaders including former premier Dr Manmohan Singh colluded with Pakistani officials at a dinner event in Delhi earlier this month in an attempt to influence the Gujarat result. The Congress' epic own-goal was its leader, Mani Shankar Aiyar, referring to the PM as "neech" (lowlife), after which he was suspended from the party.
Today, the Congress accused the Election Commission of performing as "a puppet of the BJP" after it said the Prime Minister was allowed a road show after he voted in his home state. The Congress said the leniency shown to the PM is in stark contrast to the Election Commission asking Rahul Gandhi to explain his comments about Gujarat in a television interview yesterday after campaigning had officially ended.
