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Exit polls from Assembly elections in all five states surprisingly indicate that the '<keyword id="6354642" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Modi">Modi</keyword> wave' is still in effect 
 BJP is projected to make impressive gains in Uttar Pradesh, <keyword id="44522" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Uttarakhand">Uttarakhand</keyword> and Manipur and fight tough in Goa. 
 But for Punjab, where its alliance with the <keyword id="6357030" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Shiromani-Akali-Dal">Shiromani Akali Dal</keyword> seemed doomed from the start, the party's leadership can feel happy for now. 
 Apart from the BJP, the Congress and the <keyword id="6354944" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Aam-Aadmi-Party">Aam Aadmi Party</keyword> also fared well. 
 If we had to look at the real losers in the game, they are SAD and the <keyword id="6354265" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="samajwadi-party">Samajwadi Party</keyword>. 
 
The Congress is showing a comeback in Punjab after almost a decade, fighting neck and neck in Goa and performing decently in Uttarakhand, despite a bunch of defections. 
 
Electoral alliance with the SP in Uttar Pradesh benefitted it, but ended up marring SP's performance. 
 
In Manipur, meanwhile, the BJP made impressive gains, but the exit polls show the Congress managed to fight back some as the battle is still neck and neck. 
 
 
As for AAP, in Punjab, it has gone from non-existent in 2012 to between 60-70 seats according to exit polls. 
 
As per exit polls, the Congress or AAP will take Punjab, the BJP is leading - by a lot - in Uttar Pradesh, and the BJP or the Congress will take Goa, Uttarakhand and Manipur. 
 
Pretty impressive showing by the BJP which didn't project chief ministerial candidates in any of the states it contested - except for maybe in Goa. 
 
Exit poll results 
Uttar Pradesh is staring at the prospect of a hung Assembly, as most exit polls predict huge gains here for the BJP but not an outright majority needed to form the government. 
 
In Punjab, the race between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is too close to call. 
 
Three exit polls give the BJP a clear majority in the 70-member Uttarakhand assembly. 
 
The CVoter survey predicted that the BJP will emerge as the largest single party in Manipur, dethroning the Congress for the first time in 15 years. On the other hand, the Axis exit poll gives Congress the lead in the state, with a cautious prediction that it will remain in power. 
 
The CVoter exit poll predicts a close-fought battle between the Congress and the BJP to gain control of Goa, with both parties unlikely to gain a clear majority in the 40-member state assembly.

Exit polls come to an end, 'Modi card' helps BJP stay ahead in the electoral race

Chief minister <keyword id="6355031" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Akhilesh-Yadav">Akhilesh Yadav</keyword> on Thursday said having a President's rule in his state is not desirable and if needed, he will tie up with <keyword id="6355170" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="BSP">BSP</keyword>. 
 In case <keyword id="6354265" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="samajwadi-party">Samajwadi Party</keyword> doesn’t get majority, Akhilesh Yadav told <keyword id="60684" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="BBC">BBC</keyword> that it is better to join hands with <keyword id="6357690" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="mayawati">Mayawati</keyword> than to see the state under Presidents Rule. 
 
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/up-exit-poll-voters-mesmerised-by-modi-bjp-likely-to-cross-magic-number/articleshow/57558736.cms">ALSO READ: UP exit poll: Voters mesmerised by Modi, BJP likely to cross magic number</a> 
 
His surprising remarks right when exit poll predicted BJP could win with majority in the state. While some of the survey predicted BJP emerging as the single largest party in UP, other gave them a clean majority. 
 Despite <keyword id="1575" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Congress">Congress</keyword> alliance with the ruling Samajwadi Party, the alliance seems to have failed in gaining desirable results. 
 
Notably, Times Now's exit poll gives the BJP a sharp edge, saying it will win between 190 and 210 seats in Uttar Pradesh; 201 seats will obviously give the BJP a majority. Times Now expects the SP-Congress alliance to win between 110 and 130 seats, while the BSP may get anywhere between 54 and 74 seats, it says. 
 
VMR's exit poll predicts as many as 200 seats for the BJP, 120 for the SP-Congress alliance and 64 for the BSP.

UP CM Akhilesh Yadav says he is ready to tie up with BSP if needed

CVoter predicts <keyword id="6354944" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Aam-Aadmi-Party">Aam Aadmi Party</keyword> (AAP) will open its account in the state with a majority. 
 
Seat share The magic number in <keyword id="6354953" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Punjab">Punjab</keyword> is 59. CVoter predicts AAP winning between 59 and 67 seats in the 117-strong Assembly. This is up from nil in the 2012 Punjab elections. The <keyword id="1575" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Congress">Congress</keyword> party's showing has remained about the same as in 2012. It's predicted to have won between 41 and 49 seats. In 2012, the Congress won 46 seats. The SAD-BJP combine is predicted to have been decimated winning just between 5 and 13 seats, compared with its 2012 showing, when it won as many as 68 seats. 
 
Region-wise break up 
AAP is projected to have gained big in Malwa, at the cost of the SAD-BJP combine. CVoter predicts AAP likely won 42 seats there, with SAD-BJP managing to get just 5 seats. By cmparison, in 2012, SAD-BJP won 33 seats in Malwa in 2012. The Congress is also projected to have lost seats in Malwa. It's expected to have won 16 seats, down from 2012's 28 seats. 
 
In the Doab region, SAD-BJP is projected to have dropped to 2 seats from 16 in 2012. The Congress is projected to have gained here with 19 seats, up from 2012's 11. And AAP is projected to have won 6 seats. 
 SAD-BJP is predicted to have lost big in the <keyword id="523107" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="manjha">Manjha</keyword> region too. It's expected to be down to 2 seats from 19 in 2012. The Congress is expected to have gained three seats in Manjha with CVoter predicting it won 10. AAP is expected to have won 15 seats. 
 
Share of per centage of votes 
The SAD-BJP combine's projected loss of seats reflects in its projected vote share loss as well. The combine's vote share is expected to have dropped by a huge 20.5 per cent, down to 21.4 per cent from 42.9 per cent in 2012. Despite Amarinder, the Congress too is projected to have lost vote share. CVoter's projection shows the Congress vote share is down to 36.3 per cent from 2012's 40.1 per cent. 
 
 CVoterpolled a sample size of 13,717 people. The poll has a margin of error of +/- 3 per cent.

Punjab exit poll: AAP will open its account with majority

​The high-decibel campaign for the crucial election witnessed all the major players trying all they could to lure the voters. 
	​ 
	​Even as there's still time to declare the winners and losers of the five state Assembly elections, here's a sense of who could be leading and who could be far behind the race:

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When Indian censor board chief <keyword id="15361" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Pahlaj-Nihalani">Pahlaj Nihalani</keyword> accused Bollywood director Anurag Kashyap of taking money from the Aam Aadmi Party (<keyword id="6356115" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="AAP">AAP</keyword>) for making <keyword id="6356850" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Udta-Punjab">Udta Punjab</keyword> to show the State in bad light, he must have not realised it would boomerang. 
 
The whole controversy surrounding Bollywood movie Udta Punjab, starring Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Diljit Dosanjh, has knowingly or unknowingly worked in the favour of the AAP. 
 
Senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh said, “It is a joke that Nihalani thinks AAP will give Anurag Kashyap money to make a film just to show BJP-SAD in a bad light. One need not go that far. It is all out in the open anyway. Drug abuse in Punjab is a harsh reality, and we are not supporting Kashyap here so much as we are backing the issue.” 
 
The accusations made by the censor board chief, which were rubbished by Anurag Kashyap, has given political plank to AAP for Punjab assembly elections in 2017-Drug menace. 
 
It is likely that AAP will give voice to the undertones of Punjab, who want to get rid of the menace, which has consumed many lives, taking away sole breadwinners from the families. 
 
AAP had surprised everyone in 2014 Lok Sabha polls by winning four seats in the lower house, and they were from Punjab. 
 
Since then, AAP has been making all efforts to cement its position in Punjab and derail SAD-BJP alliance. 
 
However, this is not the first time the AAP attacked the state government. In previous instances too, AAP leaders have openly accused Punjab Cabinet Ministers of being ‘drug lords’. 
 
“In the past, Sukhbir Badal has denied any drug menace in Punjab and his Cabinet Minister Surjit Jiyani has ruled out even a single drug-addict in the state, but on the other hand, Chief Minister Parkash Badal announced the opening of the country’s first Women Rehab Centre for de-addiction in the state,” AAP MP Bhagwant Mann had said. 
 
He also alleged that Punjab Cabinet Minister Bikramjit Majithia was a drug lord. 
 
Then, Majithia had filed a defamation case against the AAP leaders, including chief Arvind Kejriwal. 
 
In response to the defamation case, Bhagwant Mann said, “Badals should visit Maqbool Pura of Amritsar and Sur Singh village of Tarn Taran to assess how drugs ruined several families.” 
 
He has spoken the truth. 
 
The situation in Maqboolpura is very grim, as the village is now known as the ‘village of widows’. Families residing in the village say there is hardly any male member who is not affected by the drug menace and most of them have died. 
 
A study by Social Security Development of Women and Children department stated that 67 percent households in Punjab have at least one person addicted to drugs. The Narcotics Bureau stated that nearly 40 percent men in Punjab are hooked to drugs. 
 
Well, Kejriwal could gain ground in Punjab, dismantling the Punjab government. Only time will tell.

Pahlaj Nihalani has ‘officially’ sounded the Punjab Assembly 2017 elections’ bugle

It seems <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Congress+">Congress </a>party is already testing itself in UP waters and assessing the party’s strategy for <keyword id="6357713" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Uttar-Pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</keyword> assembly election 2017. For this, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Rahul+Gandhi">Congress party’s vice-president Rahul Gandhi</a> is pepping up his party workers to fight tooth and nail in the state elections. In one such attempt, Gandhi urged his partymen to imbibe the ‘team culture’ of <keyword id="6357934" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Steve-Jobs">Steve Jobs</keyword>’ <keyword id="6354427" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Apple">Apple</keyword>. 
 Gandhi, who is looking forward to regain lost ground in UP, also attacked <keyword id="42498" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="RSS">RSS</keyword>, saying <keyword id="1575" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Congress">Congress</keyword> party workers should shun rigid hierarchies like the RSS. 
 Gandhi, in his speech at a chintan shivir in <keyword id="58667" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mathura">Mathura</keyword> said, "Party must work like Steve Jobs' Apple and be open to all opinions and not just some leaders. We (Congress) allow people to have different ideologies, unlike the RSS." 
 
Gandhi is in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Mathura+">Mathura </a>to assess the Congress party’s approach towards the forthcoming assembly polls in early 2017. 
 "The Congress party is not like the RSS which guides the government. Every member's voice is heard here unlike what happens under (RSS chief) <keyword id="42702" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mohan-Bhagwat">Mohan Bhagwat</keyword>," stated Gandhi in party’s first major program after it was sent packing in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections with securing only two of the total 80 seats in the state. 
 Son of Congress president <keyword id="689" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sonia-Gandhi">Sonia Gandhi</keyword>, <keyword id="5268" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rahul-Gandhi">Rahul Gandhi</keyword>, urged Congress members to work as a family. He said, "Earlier, I used to see you all like an army, but now I see you as my family members and we have to work together, take care of each other as family members." 
 
He also launched a scathing attack on PM Narendra Modi. "Modiji is in a self-destruct mode. Even if we all tried, we would not be able to harm him as much as he is doing himself,” he said. 
 
Recently at a farmers’ rally, Rahul had promised not to let the controversial land bill pass, saying the PM's "Make in India" campaign was actually "Take in India" and had "no place for farmers and labourers".

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