New Delhi: If the exit polls turn out to be accurate, it’s bad news for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
Hopes of a hat-trick of wins in the Delhi Assembly polls for Arvind Kejriwal & Co. are set to be dashed going by the results of exit polls which surfaced just after single phase polling for the 70 constituencies got over early evening on Wednesday.
A majority of the exit polls have predicted that the BJP, reduced to single digits in the last two Delhi Assembly elections, is likely to return to power in the national capital after a gap of 27 years.
It was a triangular contest, but the Congress — which has been out of favour in Delhi since Sheila Dikshit’s golden era — will be reduced to 1 or 2, according to the pollsters.
Every exit poll has given BJP a majority of the 70 seats – ranging from 35-40 to as high as 51-60.
AAP has been projected to get 10 seats at one end of the spectrum to a maximum of 37.
But as AAP leaders are pointing out, exit polls often get it wrong, and they will wait till February 8 when votes for all 70 constituencies will be counted.
It was one of the most bitterly fought elections, with AAP and BJP trading serious charges against each other. Even on election day, the two parties accused each other of poll code violations like distributing cash and fake voting.
