Major parties hopeful of victory in Assam polls

With barely a couple of days left for the assembly election results, major political parties including the ruling Congress and the opposition Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the BJP are hoping to form the government in Assam.
   
With back-to-back governments in the last ten years, the ruling Congress under the leadership of chief minister Tarun Gogoi is confident of staging a hatrick.
   
"We are confident of forming the government on our performance in the last ten years which has helped the state to develop," Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Bhubaneswar Kalita said.
   
With the CNN-IBN-Hindu exit poll predicting the ruling Congress will return to power, Kalita hoped his party would win a majority of seats in the 126-member house.
   
The exit poll conducted by CNN predicted the Congress will get nearly 60 seats and the opposition AGP 30. The exit poll gave the BJP a maximum of 28 to 35 seats.
   
In the outgoing house the ruling Congress has 71 seats as against AGP's 20 and BJP's eight while there are 19 Independents.