Elections 2004: nothing new in phase 2
Nothing new this time in elections. Not even in Uttar Pradesh. Even the modern version of booth capturing by breaking and fiddling with the electronic voting machines was onpredicted lines! Now that even second phase has come to end there is nothing much to contemplate. Looks like it is NDA again. Psephologists all over the nation have been talking of the new fad called anti-incumbency where the people would vote for a different party, other than the incumbent one.
Congress hoped the anti-incumbency sentiment to settle on a nationwide scale. That does not seem to happen. If we go by the exit-poll results conducted by major TV news channels, we can expect BJP to grab atleast 52% share in the second phase.
If BJP goes shopping for few more seats with-in the NDA ambit, we can expect an NDA government. Going by the projected figures on exit polls it appears that BJP along with their allies would still be short by 15
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