A day after the exit poll predicted a neck and neck fight between the BJP and the Congress in the Hindi heartland, leaders of the two parties were seen either relaxing or engaged in hectic meetings to draw plans for the big result day of December 11 on Saturday.
Senior BJP leader and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who was on a three-day-long holiday to Bandhavgarh with his family, on Saturday appeared to be looking quite relaxed and confident. The MP Chief Minister had a jungle safari in Bandhavgarh and went on a picnic with his family. Chouhan and his wife, together, were seen preparing chapattis inside the jungle.
Chouhan's arch rival and Madhya Pradesh PCC president Kamal Nath left for Kedarnath. He will return to Bhopal on the counting day, i.e. December 11.
Chouhan, along with wife Sadhna and two daughters, visited the famous Bagulamukhi temple in Datia and offered prayers there.
"I myself am a psephologist. We are getting majority. We will form the government for the fourth time," a sanguine Chouhan said disagreeing with most of the exit polls which have predicted a Congress win the state.
"The BJP government has always stood with the public, the poor, farmers and downtrodden. My government has been with the people day and night. In return, the people of Madhya Pradesh gave their support to my party," he said, while leaving for Datia from Bandhavgarh.
The Chief Minister, who reached Bandhavgarh on Wednesday, stayed in the Taj resort for two days and spent the third day at his Cabinet Minister Sanjay Pathak's Birholi farm house.
Chouhan's Cabinet colleague and Madhya Pradesh Tourism Minister Surender Patwa was seen offering prayer in a Shaktipeeth ahead of the counting.
In a clean break with the exit poll predictions, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh watched a movie with his family. Following a hectic schedule, Singh has been relaxing for the last two days after he came back from the election tour in Telangana. On Friday, Singh met the poll managers and party candidates.
Even as the poll managers in Chhattisgarh are confident of BJP's victory for the fourth consecutive term, some candidates were looking tensed about the outcome of the Assembly elections.
In Delhi, BJP president on Saturday met party's general secretaries to draw plans for the result day of December 11. Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his mother and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi took a meeting of the party office bearers in the national capital.
The result for the Assembly elections to five states is scheduled on December 11. The exit polls have put the Congress back on the election road map with most predictions showing a photo finish in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh between the BJP and the Congress or an advantage Congress in these two crucial states of the Hindi heartland.
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