Exit poll 2019 analysis: East seen making up for NDA's losses in UP, South

The turnout figures, usually not an accurate indication of a voting trend, however, are validated in some states

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UP CM Yogi Adityanath, West Bengal CM and TMC Supremo Mamata Banerjee, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, and Punjab CM Amarinder Singh after casting their vote in the seventh and last phase of 2019 elections on Sunday Photo: PTI

Aditi Phadnis

5 min read Last Updated : May 20 2019 | 10:21 AM IST

With most polls giving the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) around 300 seats and the BJP an average of 230, there seemed hardly any doubt that at least exit polls expect Narendra Modi to become the prime minister again. However, the most interesting figure in the opinion polls is the figure of “others” — the parties which are opposed to both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The collective number of these parties is so high that both the NDA and the UPA might have to scramble, willy-nilly to quickly, include these parties in their respective alliances to prevent