Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah during the BJP Central Election Committee meeting, at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi on Sunday. PTI pictureThe BJP's hunger to win every election under Modi and Shah has generated unprecedented national interest in the Karnataka Assembly polls. In some surveys the Congress is ahead and in some others the BJP," a leader associated with the BJP's Karnataka affairs said. The leader refused to share details of the surveys but acknowledged that winning Karnataka would not be a cakewalk for the BJP. He said the surveys had shown that neither the Congress nor the BJP can form the government on its own.

Source: The Telegraph April 15, 2018 21:00 UTC