ABP News-CSDS survey: Congress making substantial gains in Rajasthan, BJP lagging

The Congress is making substantial gains in Rajasthan as the BJP is lagging behind the grand old party by 5 per cent vote share, a survey conducted by ABP News and CSDS has found.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi. Photo: PTI

NEW DELHI: The Congress is making substantial gains in Rajasthan as the BJP is lagging behind the grand old party by 5 per cent vote share, a survey conducted by ABP News and CSDS has found. According to the 'Mood of the Nation' survey, the Congress is likely to get 44 per cent vote share and the BJP may only manage to get 39 per cent of votes, if elections to the 200-member assembly were to be held today.

#देशकामूड - In Rajasthan - Even as the BJP maintains an overall edge over the Congress, the latter has made substantial gains compared to the January survey. Moreover, at the assembly level, it is the Congress which leads the BJP. https://t.co/JQJlKZeiOk pic.twitter.com/NWiZTs1GiW

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State Congress president Sachin Pilot said he is confident that his party will get an absolute majority in Rajasthan. On the presence of the BSP in the state, he said that the senior leadership will decide on forming an alliance with Mayawati's party. To Watch Mood of The Nation survey Click Here The Congress won four of six assembly by-polls and the two parliamentary by-elections to Ajmer and Alwar earlier this year. While for the BJP, the state unit has remained without a chief for over a month after Ashok Parnami, who was held responsible for the bypoll loss, resigned as the state party president on March 16. In 2013, the then ruling Congress lost the state to the Vasundhara Raje-led BJP. The saffron party came to power with a landslide victory and was able to get 163 seats while Congress was limited to just 21 seats. Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje had attributed her party's victory to Narendra Modi, who was the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP at that time.