Congress’s Praveen Chakravarty says ‘we will triple our seats from 2014’ 

Praveen Chakravarty.

The head of the Congress’s team of data analytics, Praveen Chakravarty, who was closely involved in drafting the party’s manifesto, believes that India’s GDP is now large enough to absorb the costs incurred by the new poverty-alleviation scheme, NYAY. He said this during an interview with the Hindu.

As a response on prediction of number of seats Congress could get, Chakravarty said, “At this stage, to predict how many seats we get will be a fool’s hazard. Look, data indicate that one-third of the voters decide who to vote in the week of voting. I can only say that as of now, we will triple our seats (from the 2014 tally) and the BJP will halve their count.”

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, the Congress got 44 seats and the BJP got 282.

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