Election could put regional parties in driving seat - poll.
India's
two main parties - the governing Congress and the opposition Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) - are losing ground among voters, an opinion poll
showed, with regional groups set to take nearly half of parliament seats
in next year's election.
India's
two main parties - the governing Congress and the opposition Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) - are losing ground among voters, an opinion poll
showed, with regional groups set to take nearly half of parliament seats
in next year's election.
A
national government largely made up of regional parties, with their own
diverse agendas, is likely to be fragile and unwieldy, putting at risk
Asia's third-largest economy, whose growth rate has already tumbled to a
decade low after a period of policy paralysis.
The
Congress, which is battling allegations of corruption, would drop to
121 seats from the 206 it now holds in the 545-member Lok Sabha, if
voting in the election were to reflect the poll, conducted by Team
Cvoter, a public opinion research company, for India Today.
