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New Delhi, Sep 24: The BJP-led NDA seems to be gaining on the Bihar battleground, a recent opinion poll aired on popular TV news channel Times Now suggested on Thursday. The NDA is now neck and neck with the Nitish Kumar lead Grand Alliance comprising JDU, RJD and Congress. The poll compared the seats won in this poll survey, to the number of seats each party won in the last poll survey, conducted on September 18. The results of the opinion poll showed the Nitish Kumar lead Rashtriya Janata Dal to have lost a small percentage of support, while the BJP lead NDA gained more support, making the rival alliances at par with each other. Also Read: Bihar Assembly Elections 2015: Narendra Modi wave may continue; people to vote above caste politics, says Today’s Chankya Opinion Poll
NDA was projected to win 109-125 seats, while the alliance of Nitish Kumar’s JD-U, Lalu Prasad’s RJD and Congress is projected to get 104 to 120 seats in the 243-member Bihar assembly. Others are projected to win 10-18 seats as per this poll. The Times Now-CVoter opinion poll has projected the NDA to win 117 seats and the grand alliance projected to win 112 seats, leaving the remaining 14 seats for others. There is a difference of only one per cent in vote share projected in the Times Now opinion poll survey, with NDA getting 43 per cent votes and the grand alliance running close with 42 per cent votes.
Though NDA has not projected anyone as its chief ministerial candidate, 46.8 per cent of those surveyed wanted the incumbent Nitish Kumar to be the chief minister and 16 per cent voted in favour of BJP leader Sushil Modi while 6.7 per cent preferred former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi and 5.4 per cent preferred BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain. The C-Voter survey’s projections are based on a sample survey of 7,786 interviews covering all 243 constituencies in Bihar during the second and third week of September. The survey has left a margin of 3 per cent error in projections.
(With inputs from PTI)
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