NEW DELHI: The ruling BJP is set to have the last laugh in the bitterly contested Gujarat assembly elections, if the predictions made by various opinion polls are to be believed. The other cadidates may win 3 seats, the surveys show.The caste coalition stitched by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat seems to have bolstered the poll prospects of the party. The Lokniti-CSDS-ABP poll gives the BJP 91 to 99 seats.These predictions put BJP in a comfortable position with 91 being the majority mark in the 182-member assembly.The Congress, on the other hand, will have to contend with anything between 63 and 86 seats in the assembly. While the Lokniti-CSDS-ABP poll gives Congress 78 to 86 seats, Times Now-VMR opinion poll puts the figure between 63 and 73 seats. The CVoter/TV9 predicts 73 seats for the Congress.This despite the fact that at least two opinion polls show increase in Congress vote share compared to the 2012 assembly polls.The CVoter/TV9 opinion poll shows Congress voteshare increasing from 38.8 per cent to 41.7 per cent while the BJP voteshare declining from 47.8 per cent to 46.5 per cent.The CVoter survey shows Congress gaining across all the four regions in the state - Central Gujarat, north Gujarat, Saurashtra and south Gujarat.

Source: Times of India December 07, 2017 16:07 UTC