According to most exit polls, the NDA has done good job in Bihar, which give it 20 seats and more, though various surveys show diverging numbers for the rest.
While the JD (U) is expected to have taken a serious beating and is foretell to win anything between five and 10 seats, down from 20 it won in the 2009 Lok Sabha election.
As per the ABP exit poll result, the UPA will win 14 seats but the Times Now exit poll has predicted a very poor tally for it with the RJD Congress combine expected to win only two seats.
Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi, former deputy chief minister said, “The NDA will get more seats than what is being projected by most of the exit polls. The NDA will easily cross the tally of 32 seats it had won in the 2009 Lok Sabha election.
According to the Times Now exit poll, the BJP-led coalition comprising LJP and RLSP will win 28 seats; the JD (U) 10 seats and the RJD-Congress combine two. Whereas the NDA’s tally of 28 seats may not be surprising, the prediction of two seats for the UPA angered RJD chief Lalu Prasad.
The prediction of 10 seats for JD (U) has taken the BJP by surprise which said the tally was too high.
“I don’t agree with what the Times Now channel has shown in the exit poll. I think they have erred because the JD (U) can’t win 10 seats. Even the prediction that the RJD-Congress-NCP will win two seats is hard to digest. I can understand if they had predicted a tally of two seats for the JD (U) and 10 seats for the UPA,” a senior BJP leader told ET.
Alternatively, the ABP exit poll survey predicted 21 seats for the NDA, 14 for the UPA and five for the ruling JD (U).