BJP confident of winning Bihar elections: Javadekar

BJP today expressed confidence of victory in the Bihar assembly poll for which vote counting would be taken up tomorrow and claimed people have voted for the development agenda of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"We are absolutely sure of our win in Bihar. Women have voted in large numbers. Poor want development and they have confidence in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership.
"Different exit polls have come but they are not exact polls. In less than 24 hours, we will know the exact poll. We should wait for it," Union Minister and senior BJP leader Parkash Javadekar told reporters.
Counting of votes in the high-stakes close-to-call Bihar assembly elections, billed as a hot battle between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, will take place tomorrow. The counting for the 243 seats of the assembly will begin at 8 AM and the verdict for a majority of seats is expected by the early afternoon.

Most of the exit polls have predicted a close contest between the BJP-led NDA and the grand alliance of JD(U)-RJD- Congress with a slight edge to the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led grouping.
Referring to the win of some of the BJP candidates in Kerela civic polls, Javadekar said that the politics in the state is changing and BJP has become an important factor in it even as he expressed confidence of performing much better in the forthcoming Assembly elections.
He said that the party is happy that the Kerela voter has come out of "jinx" and has preferred BJP at many places as he referred to the victory of BJP candidates from Thiruvantapuram and Trisur in the civic polls.

"We were absolute zero but our numbers have swelled to a very recognizable figure. This is the indication of shape of things which is coming in Kerela. Kerela politics is changing forever and BJP will become an important factor," he said.