Almost all the national survey agencies and media houses have predicted that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will come back to power for a second term.
The numbers might be slightly different, but it is almost certain that the BJP will be back in the hot seat in Delhi.
Even the opposition parties including the Congress, Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and others are understood to have lost their hopes as there are nowhere near the magic figure even if all the parties come together.
Yet, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is trying to give a build-up that he will stitch together all the opposition parties under the auspices of the Congress and bring them to power.
After repeated visits to Delhi, he went to Lukcknow to meet Akhilesh and Mayawati. On Monday, he left for Kolkata to meet Mamata Banerjee to discuss the post-poll scenario.
In fact, the TDP chief is very much aware that he is going to face a miserable defeat it the assembly elections in the hands of YSR Congress party led by Y S Jaganmohan Reddy. Even in the Lok Sabha elections, the TDP is unlikely to get more than a half a dozen seats.
It is not that Naidu is not aware of the ground reality. But as long as he is in the chief minister’s chair, he has to protect his image and cannot concede defeat just like that.
So, he is running from one state to the other in the name of forming the grand alliance only to get the image that he is playing a key role at least at the national level.
However, analysts say, Naidu can sustain this drama only for another 48 hours. After two days, he will have nothing to do in Delhi as the BJP is most likely to come to power and also in AP, where he is going to concede power to YSRC.