Its advantage BJP. There are some doubts about Jharkhand. But mostly the wind is blowing in favour of the BJP. The aggregate of nine exit polls, though, indicates an NDA victory in Maharashtra. Data also indicates a close fight in Jharkhand, where the end result could be a split verdict.
Numbers say Maharashtra’s Mahayuti — ruling alliance of Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena, Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party and the BJP — could win 150 seats and the Maha Vikas Aghadi, the coalition of Uddhav Thackeray’s faction of Shiv Sena, NCP Sharadchandra Pawar and the Congress, may get 125. The majority mark in the 288-member assembly stands at 1 The state where complication was a given in the assembly election –has left pollsters befuddled, with three out of nine predicting a hung
house, four leaning towards the ruling alliance and two hedging theirbets.
Jharkhand, where most expected a clear outcome, did not offer much clarity, with poll analysts being divided sharply down the middle.Three are of the opinion that the ruling alliance will retain the state, and three others equally convinced that the NDA will wrest the state from the INDIA bloc.
