Counting in 5 states to begin soon; PM Modi's popularity to be tested

December 11, 2018 07:41

Counting of votes will begin soon in what is being viewed as a prestige battle for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

Counting will begin at 8 am for Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram.

Exit polls have mostly forecast a tight race between the ruling BJP and the Congress in Madhya Pradesh and neighbouring Chhattisgarh, while many of them have given a clear majority to the Congress in Rajasthan.

For Telangana, exit polls have been divided between the TRS and the Congress-led opposition alliance. If these forecasts hold true, the Congress which has been losing state after state since the 2014 elections of the 22 states that went to polls after 2014, Congress has won, on its own, only two, Punjab in 2017 and Puducherry in 2016 will get a booster shot in the run-up to the 2019 elections.

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