Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com, reports from Patna:


Meet Suresh Singh (78) from Gazipur in Uttar Pradesh. He arrived in Patna at 5  am and says he has been a BJP cheerleader since 1990. He has always been to every state assembly poll -- Delhi, UP (Lucknow), Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. Singh says the BJP will win more than 150 seats in this election. He says be spends his own money to travel to states to cheer party workers.