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Opinion polls predict victory of Congress
NEW DELHI. May 16 : Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's Congress Party will win next week's national elections but will fall short of a majority again, two opinion polis reported Thursday, reports AP.
A third opinion poll predicted the Congress Party will get a majority, winning at least 310 scats in the 545-member Parliament.
The polis were conducted for leading national news
magazines. India Today. Frontline and Sunday which appear over the weekend.
The results were reported • by the Press Trust of India news agency, but the full details of the polis will not be available until the magazines are published.
All three predicted that the Bharatiya Janata Party, a Hindu revivalist party, will come second In the voting on May 20. 23 and 26. The elections are for the policy-making lower
house.
Congress had emerged as the single largest party In the last elections in 1989. but was unable to form a government with the 210 seats It con trolled.
The India today poll. Con ducted in 51 constituencies this month, predicted 233 seats for the Congress, about 30 seats short of a majority. It gave the Bharatiya Janata or Indian Peoples Party. 155 seats 69 more than It won in
1989.
The Frontline poll said Gandhi will win 224 scats and the Hindu party 140 Both the polls indicated Iridia was heading for a deadlocked par Hament and possibly a coalition government
Frontline gave 115 seats to former PHme Minister V P Singh's National Front alliance which ruled for 11 months after Gandhi lost power tn 1989.
Incumbent Chandra
Shekhar who replaced *V P Singh last November, was not a factor tn the polls. He heads a breakaway taction of Singh alliance which has no national organisation
Another report of AP says: A Parliament member running for reelection has been assas strutted u> the northern •late of Bihar where officials fear violence between rival poliural gangs may -iisnipt next week* elections.
Also. Sikh mutant, killed
communist party activist in the •late of Punjab and slaughtered 10 of his relatives, visitors and bodyguard* police said Thurs-
Two of the victims »«re 3 and 4 year* old. «ald Deputy Inspector General R S Challa
Chalia said the staying of the activist. Balwant Singh, was not directly related Io ihe elections He had been on the militants hit list for a tong time as an outspoken oppo nent at their campaign