As predicted India starts turning red - Left scores heavy in West Bengal and Kerala according to exit polls
Sonia Joshi
Apr. 22, 2006

Kerala and West Bengal is turning even more red according to AC Nielsen exit poll. For the first time all political parties Congress and BJP will be wiped out completely in West Bengal and Kerala – the two most educated state of India.

The Left parties have gained tremendous grass root level support in other states too.

According to media reports, bout 68 per cent of the 11.3 million electorate voted in the second phase of assembly elections in West Bengal on Saturday, with exit polls predicting a huge win for the ruling Left Front for the seventh term.

The polls by two Bengali news channels predicted 48-50 of Saturday's 66 seats spread over Howrah, Hooghly, East Midnapore and Nadia going to the Left, which won 41 seats in 2001 as against 18 by Trinamool Congress and five by Congress.

The tally of the Trinamool Congress-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) combine would fall to a dozen while the Congress would get three to four seats, the exit polls said.

While Star-Ananda AC Nielson survey predicted 50 for the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), which heads the Left Front, the newly launched Kolkata TV in a survey with ORG Marg gave the Marxists 48 wins.

The Left Front has 199 seats in the 294-member outgoing assembly. According to opinion polls, it is expected to up its tally vastly riding on the popularity of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya.

The first phase of Kerala's assembly elections ended on Saturday in six districts with a nearly 70 per cent voter turnout - and an exit poll indicated a victory for the Left.

The AC Nielsen exit poll for India Vision television said the Left Democratic Front (LDF) could bag 38 of the 59 constituencies in contention in six southern districts. The ruling Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) was poised to win only 20 seats.

The UDF had swept 45 of these seats in the 2001 elections, showing a huge drop in a tightly polarised state where the Left is widely tipped to return to power after five years in the opposition.

Saturday's vote ended at 5 pm after a peaceful 10-hour exercise in the districts of Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Kottayam and Idukki.

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