NEW DELHI. De? 11: India's powerful Hindu nafloffaliaU said todajr they would win easily -parlfarneotary elections dirty next year. reports'AFP.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP. Indian People's Party), which ruled India for just 13 days in 1996. said the steady decline of the Congress (I), the country's oldest party, would ensure a Hindu nationalist vic-^The very circumstances in which the elections are being held make its outcome utterly predictable". BJP's president Lal Krishna Advani told a news conference here.