Karan Thapar 
In an interview that ends on a most unfortunate but prolonged angry and hostile note, the well known election analyst Prashant Kishore has said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will comfortably win the elections and expects the party to get 300 seats like 2019, but perhaps a few more – which he defined as possibly 5-15 more – seats. On the other hand, he categorically said the Congress party cannot get even 100 seats.
Explaining his forecast, Kishore said he did not expect BJP to suffer “material damage” in the states he referred to as the north and the west. Interestingly, he repeatedly defined material damage as losing more than 50 seats. He added that whatever number of seats BJP loses in the north and west it will more than make up in what he called the east and south. In response to a question, he made clear that even if the BJP loses 50 seats in the north and west, it will make up for this with gains in the east and south.
This interview has published in its entirety, without any edits.
