UP, Gujarat, UT, Punjab- Election 2007

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>After round 5, BJP, BSP neck-and-neck </b>
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
After yet another low turnout of 46 per cent in the fifth round of Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, the BJP appeared to be in the clear lead in the 57 constituencies that went to polls on Saturday.

Exit polls after the fifth round predicted a badly hung House, with the BJP and the BSP almost neck-and-neck, and the SP as the major loser. The Congress was also expected to register some gains.

<b>Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's entry in the campaign seemed to have helped the BJP surge ahead in the fifth round and its leaders claimed that the party could finally emerge in the lead</b>. The NDTV exit polls projected the BJP increasing its tally in the region from 17 in 2002 to 21 this time. The Congress tally was expected to go up from 4 to nine. The BSP and the SP, which held 18 and 14 of these seats in the last Assembly, could get only 14 and 10 seats respectively.
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<b>Based on the exit polls of the five rounds</b>, the
NDTV projected 120-130 seats for the BSP in the next Assembly.
The BJP, which held only 98 seats in the last assembly, was expected to be close behind with a tally of 115-125 seats.
The SP, which had won 145 seats last time, was projected to win only 95-105 seats and
the Congress was likely to increase its tally from 25 to 35-45.
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