Elections 2019: BJP has a plan B in place which can be deployed in 20 mins

In states like Odisha, Andhra and Telangana, Modi and Shah don't attack potential allies that they may need if the numbers fall short

‘Even if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gets 160 seats out of 545, we’re coming back to power. And Narendra Modi will be Prime Minister again’. This was not a Modi bhakt speaking but the resigned observation of an aide of a top minister in the Modi cabinet.

The aide conceded that in the first phase in Uttar Pradesh for instance where in 2014, BJP had got all eight seats, this time they might get two – Gautambudhnagar (or NOIDA) and Ghaziabad. ‘We are losing three, four seats from every state’ he said. But ‘it will take no more than 20