In a 2014 reversal, DMK front could sweep Tamil Nadu: Poll tracker
TNN | Updated: Mar 19, 2019, 10:07 IST
DMK President M K StalinNEW DELHI: The DMK-Congress alliance is set to sweep the Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu, winning 34 of the 39 seats, according to a poll tracker conducted by Times Now and VMR. If the prediction comes true, it would be a near reversal of the 2014 verdict, when the AIADMK led by J Jayalalithaa swept the polls, bagging 37 seats.
This time the ruling AIADMK in the state heads a grand alliance that includes the BJP, the PMK and the DMDK. The party is contesting only 20 seats leaving the rest to its allies. The DMK too has left half the seats to its allies in an election that, after decades, will not have M Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa leading the rival fronts.
The poll shows that NDA stands to gain 13 seats in the post-Balakot air strike compared to the projections of its tally in the period before the IAF dropped bombs on Jaish-e-Mohammed’s terror camp.
Jagan Reddy expected to sweep polls in Andhra Pradesh
While the earlier poll conducted between February 5 and 21 gave 270 seats to the NDA, the estimate of its likely tally rose to 283 seats in the period between February 5 and March 12. In contrast, the seats of Congress and its allies came down from 144 to 135 in the corresponding period.
Interestingly, While Congress and its allies are projected to suffer losses in the post-Balakot strike period, the bloc of ‘others’, a grouping regional parties not aligned with BJP or Congress, are also projected to suffer marginally — from 129 to 125. ‘Others’ include regional parties like BJD, TMC, TDP, TRS and YSRCP as well as the SP-BSPRLD combine in Uttar Pradesh. However, the SP-BSPRLD is projected to lose seats.
Of the other southern states, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are likely to give boost to non-Congress, non-BJP regional parties. The YSR Congress led by Jaganmohan Reddy is predicted to sweep 22 of the 25 seats in Andhra Pradesh, crushing Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP. K Chandrashekara Rao’s TRS is predicted to win 13 of the 17 seats in Telengana. In Kerala, the Congress-led UDF could win 16 of the 20 seats, the Left parties three seats and the BJP could win its maiden seat from the state.
Karnataka, the survey says, could be much closer – the BJP could win 15 and the Congress-JD(S) 13.
NDA is projected to gain in states like UP, Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and West Bengal. The biggest gains for NDA since the pre-Balakot poll are from UP, where it is projected to gain three seats — and is expected to take its tally from 39 to 42 at the expense of SP-BSP-RLD, which is projected to go down from 39 to 36 seats. UP has 80 seats and two of these are expected to go to Congress.
Ten of the 40 CRPF troopers martyred in the Pulwama terror attack were from UP, which also accounts for the largest number of recruitments to the armed forces and paramilitary forces.
This time the ruling AIADMK in the state heads a grand alliance that includes the BJP, the PMK and the DMDK. The party is contesting only 20 seats leaving the rest to its allies. The DMK too has left half the seats to its allies in an election that, after decades, will not have M Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa leading the rival fronts.
The poll shows that NDA stands to gain 13 seats in the post-Balakot air strike compared to the projections of its tally in the period before the IAF dropped bombs on Jaish-e-Mohammed’s terror camp.
Jagan Reddy expected to sweep polls in Andhra Pradesh
While the earlier poll conducted between February 5 and 21 gave 270 seats to the NDA, the estimate of its likely tally rose to 283 seats in the period between February 5 and March 12. In contrast, the seats of Congress and its allies came down from 144 to 135 in the corresponding period.
Interestingly, While Congress and its allies are projected to suffer losses in the post-Balakot strike period, the bloc of ‘others’, a grouping regional parties not aligned with BJP or Congress, are also projected to suffer marginally — from 129 to 125. ‘Others’ include regional parties like BJD, TMC, TDP, TRS and YSRCP as well as the SP-BSPRLD combine in Uttar Pradesh. However, the SP-BSPRLD is projected to lose seats.
Of the other southern states, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are likely to give boost to non-Congress, non-BJP regional parties. The YSR Congress led by Jaganmohan Reddy is predicted to sweep 22 of the 25 seats in Andhra Pradesh, crushing Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP. K Chandrashekara Rao’s TRS is predicted to win 13 of the 17 seats in Telengana. In Kerala, the Congress-led UDF could win 16 of the 20 seats, the Left parties three seats and the BJP could win its maiden seat from the state.
Karnataka, the survey says, could be much closer – the BJP could win 15 and the Congress-JD(S) 13.
NDA is projected to gain in states like UP, Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and West Bengal. The biggest gains for NDA since the pre-Balakot poll are from UP, where it is projected to gain three seats — and is expected to take its tally from 39 to 42 at the expense of SP-BSP-RLD, which is projected to go down from 39 to 36 seats. UP has 80 seats and two of these are expected to go to Congress.
Ten of the 40 CRPF troopers martyred in the Pulwama terror attack were from UP, which also accounts for the largest number of recruitments to the armed forces and paramilitary forces.
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