NEW DELHI: The Gujarat elections could be a dead heat between BJP and Congress with the former just scraping through to a win, according to an opinion poll released on Monday. The poll predicted that both parties would get 43% of the votes butin the 182-member assembly while Congress would have to settle for between 78 and 86 seats.The latest projections are a remarkable turnaround from the 30-point lead for BJP projected by a poll done by the same agencies in August. At that time, the seat projections were thatwhile Congress would struggle to cross 30. BJP won 115 seats in the 2012 assembly polls while Congress won 61. It found that 54% of those who voted for BJP in the parliamentary polls now back this statement.

Source: Times of India December 05, 2017 00:33 UTC