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Friday, October 14, 2016

2017 Punjab Assembly Election - Opinion Poll Shows Congress Leading in Punjab Thursday Oct 13,2016

If Punjab goes to polls today , the Congress will emerge as the largest party but will fall short of a majority, an opinion poll showed on Thursday Oct 13,2016

The opinion poll by Axis-My-India for India Today group said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will be in second place, and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) alliance will trail at third position.

The opinion poll gave the Congress 49 to 55 seats, while the AAP got 42 to 46 seats.

The BJP-SAD combine got 17 to 21 seats as per the opinion poll.

On the vote share, the poll said the Congress is likely to get 33 % votes, the AAP 30 % and the BJP-SAD alliance may get 15 % of the votes.

Around 76 % of the participants also agreed that the drug menace is a major problem, and 80 % blamed politicians for not being able to control it.

The poll also said that around 22 % votes that had gone to the BJP-SAD alliance in the past have shifted to the AAP, while 19 % votes shifted to the Congress.

The opinion poll surveyed 6,552 people in all 117 constituencies

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