Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: The Congress is likely to return to power in Haryana after a decade, and has an edge but may miss the halfway mark in Jammu and Kashmir, where it fought the Assembly elections in alliance with the National Conference, according to most exit polls on October 6.
In J&K, where Assembly elections were held after 10 years — the first after the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019 — some polls predicted a hung House while others gave a narrow lead to the Congress-NC alliance. The exit polls showed two broad trends — the near decimation of the PDP, and the BJP managing to hold on to its seats in the Jammu region.
With 90 Assembly constituencies this time, the India Today-C Voter poll put the Congress-NC at near the halfway mark. It gave 40-48 seats to the Congress-NC, 27-32 to the BJP, 6-12 to the PDP, and 6-11 to ‘Others’.
