NEW DELHI — An opinion poll done for a television channel predicted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) the front-runner in the upcoming general elections in the country. According to the poll released on Saturday, the NDA will win 233, riding on the back of the BJP's strongest ever showing, while the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) will plummet to just 119 with the Congress registering its lowest ever tally. According to the poll done for ABP News by AC Nielsen, the BJP is likely to win 209 seats and the Congress 91. The other big players to emerge from the elections would be the Trinamool Congress with 28 seats, left parties with 23, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam with 21, the Bahujan Samaj Party with 18 and the Biju Janata Dal with 17 seats. The NDA's performance would be particularly strong in the west, where it would win 86 of 116 seats, and the north, where it would bag 87 of 151 seats, the poll projected. The south would be the only region in which the UPA does better than the NDA winning 35 of the 134 seats against the saffron alliance's 21. But parties aligned to neither alliance would dominate this region winning 79 seats. In the east too, such parties would win 71 of 142 seats, the NDA 39 and the UPA 32, it suggested.
