AAP set to get majority in Delhi, say exit polls

All the exit polls on Saturday  have predicted a majority for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Delhi Assembly elections with one of them giving it as high as 53 seats in the 70-member House.

In the elections, billed as a referendum on Prime Minister Narendra Modi but rejected as such by the BJP leadership, a resurgent AAP-led by Arvind Kejriwal has emerged the winner in all the polls. The polls shown on television channels today have predicted that BJP as the number two party and Congress way behind with none of them giving it more than 5 seats. The exit polls, by and large, were taken up to 3 PM while the polling ended at 6 PM.

AAP had got 28 seats had to tie up with Congress' 8 to form a short-lived government of 49 days in the 2013 polls. The BJP had then emerged the single largest with 32 seats. India Today-Cicero exit poll on Headlines Today channel has projected that AAP will get between 35 and 43 and for BJP 23 and 29. Congress has been projected to get up to 5 seats. The ABP-Nielsen poll said that AAP will get 39 while BJP 28 and Congress 3.

Zee TV-C Voter poll projected 31 to 39 seats for AAP and 27 to 35 seats for BJP. Congress gets 2 to 4 in the poll. The highest number of 53 seats for AAP has been predicted by India News-Axis poll, which gave BJP 17 and Congress upto 2. The India TV's exit poll put AAP in the top with 31 to 39 seats. BJP 27 to 35 and Congress 2 to 4. 

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