NEW DELHI:
The “grand alliance” of JD(U)-RJD-Congress is projected to win between 116 and 132 seats in the 243-member Bihar Assembly for which elections were announced, according to a opinion poll taken by India TV channel.
The BJP-led combine including LJP, RLSP and HAM, has been projected to win within a range of 94 to 110 seats, according to the poll conducted by C-Voter, according to a press release issued by the channel.
C-Voter said the projections were based on a methodology based on random stratified sample of 10,683 interviews covering all the Assembly constituencies during the last week of August and the first week of September.
The margin of error is plus/minus 3 three per cent at the state level and plus/minus 5 per cent at the regional level, the poll agency said.
In the 2010 Assembly elections, JD(U) and BJP had won 206 seats by going together in an alliance while Lalu Prasad’s RJD-led alliance with Ram Vilas Paswan could win only 25 seats.
However, during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the NDA comprising BJP, Paswan LJP and Upendra Kushwaha’s RLSP won in 174 Assembly segments. The Lalu-Nitish combine could win only in 51 Assembly segments in the face of Modi wave.
On the question of who is the best chief minister, a whopping 53 per cent respondents favoured incumbent Nitish Kumar, while only 18 per cent preferred BJP leader Sushil Modi and only 5 per cent preferred Lalu Prasad and Shatrughan Sinha. (AGENCIES)
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