No Chance Of Hung Assembly, BJP Is Coming Back: Manipur Chief Minister

Manipur's last election in 2017 had produced a hung assembly when the Congress won 28 seats and the BJP won 21 but cobbled up an alliance by getting the smaller parties on its side.

With some election surveys forecasting a hung assembly in Manipur, Chief Minister Biren Singh has ruled out the possibility despite the February 28 and March 5 polls being a multi-corner fight, with regional parties like the NPP, NPF and new entrant JD(U) fielding some strong candidates.

Mr Singh said his party BJP, which faced an intense backlash within over its choices of candidates last month, has been calculative in its strategy and has focused on the winnability of its nominees. This will earn the party an absolute majority, the Chief Minister claimed.

"There is no chance of a hung assembly, no question. I am saying it will all calculations. Out of 60 seats, we have 29 sitting MLAs contesting and their winnability is very high. And with that, we just need to win 11 other seats to form the government, which we will easily achieve. This is the arithmetic we are working upon," Mr Singh told NDTV.

He said this after launching the party's creative campaign and vans with multimedia facilities to run digital campaigns in all 60 constituencies of the state.