Survey: Nitish back with 129-145 seats

Nitish Kumar's reign as Bihar Chief Minister will continue as the JD(U)-RJD-Congress alliance is going to win the Assembly elections easily, according to the CNN-IBN-Axis My India pre-poll survey. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance will come second and the expected seat gap would be wide, reveals the survey, which is the largest pre-poll exercise of its kind.

The JDU-RJD-Congress alliance is projected to get 129-145 seats in the 243-member Bihar Assembly. The halfway mark is 122 seats. The NDA which apart from the BJP also has Lok Janshakti Party, Rashtriya Lok Samata Party and Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) will bag just 87-103 seats. 

The others like Samajawadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, Nationalist Congress Party, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) etc likely to be routed. They may win just 8-14 seats. more