Exit polls 2019: Saffron wave may be set to make inroads in West Bengal
At least five exit polls have predicted that the BJP’s number of Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal will increase to 11-19 from only two now. The India News-Polstrat exit poll has pegged the BJP's share of seats at 14, Republic-CVoter at 11, Times Now-VMR 11, ABP-Nielsen 16 and Sudarshan News 19 seats. Most of the gains are at the expense of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC). As opposed to 34 seats in 2014, the TMC is likely to get 26 seats, according to India News-Polstrat. Republic-CVoter has given the party 29, Times Now-VMR 28, ABP-Nielsen 24, and Sudarshan News 20 seats. The Congress, which had won four seats, will be restricted to two seats, according to all the five exit polls. The Left Front, which bagged two seats in 2014, is either going to lose both (according to India News Polstrat, Republic-CVoter, and ABP-Nielsen) or might hold on to just one seat (Times Now-VMR and Sudarshan News’s prediction). If the exit poll results are even close to the final results,...