New Delhi sources have stated that two exit polls on Sunday predicted crushing victories for the BJP in all three municipal corporations in Delhi and a complete rout for AAP and Congress. While the India Today-Axis poll gave the BJP between 202 and 220 seats of the 272 up for grabs, the ABP News-CVoter poll gave it 218 seats.
Both polls gave the BJP three-fourths majorities in each of the three corporations and suggested that AAP and Congress would finish up with fairly similar tallies in the region of 20-odd seats each and if the predictions are proved right, it would be a remarkable achievement for a party that was battling ten years of incumbency in the corporations and replaced all its corporators. It would also be a huge setback for AAP on its home turf.
Meanwhile when coming on the back of a poor performance in Goa and a worse
than expected showing in Punjab, it would raise the question of whether the
fledgling party has run out of steam after a stunning performance in the 2015
assembly polls.
The India Today poll forecast that the BJP would win 78-84 seats in the 104-member North Corporation, 79-85 in the 104-member South and 45-51 of the East's 64. It put the Congress neck and neck in the North with 8-12 seats each and the AAP perhaps marginally ahead of the Congress in the South and East.
