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Swarajya Staff
May 19, 2019, 09:08 PM | Updated 09:08 PM IST
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi may come back to power with a thumping majority on 23 May by winning as many as 368 seats as per India Today - Axis exit poll.
In order to achieve such numbers, the exit poll predicts that the NDA will sweep virtually the whole of North India and Karnataka in the South. Other exit polls like Times Now - VMR and Republic TV - CVoter project a majority for the NDA with a seat tally of 306 and 287 respectively.
Jan Ki Baat projects as many as 315 seats for NDA, while NewsX has thrown up a number of 298. Chanakya which came the closes to predicting the 2014 numbers has given 340 to the NDA.
The showstopper moment of the elections might be West Bengal after exit polls have predicted as many as 26 seats to the NDA. In Uttar Pradesh the BJP is seen successfully fending off the SP-BSP Gathbandhan threat by winning as many as 68 seats with a vote share of 49 per cent.