New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is ahead in Madhya Pradesh in the coming Assembly elections, say opinion polls conducted by two news weeklies which, however, place Congress ahead in the other States going to polls on December 1.

As the campaign enters mid-stream, the BJP's swing has increased from four per cent to six and that of Chief Minister Digvijay Singh has decreased further from minus 3 to minus 4.

The swing of others have also decreased by one point. All the gains are the BJP's, says the "India Today-Aaj Tak Org-Marg" poll which gives the party 140 to 150 seats in the 230 member-House against its 83 in 1998.

The ruling Congress is expected to get between 55 and 65 seats against the 124 held by it in the outgoing Assembly, the poll said.

The poll predicted bad tidings for BJP in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Delhi. In Rajasthan it gave BJP between 55 and 65 seats against 33 in 1998. The ruling Congress there is expected to secure 120 to 130 seats against 153 in 1998.

In Delhi, again, the ruling Congress is expected to retain the majority in the 70-member Assembly securing 50-60 seats against 49 won five years ago. BJP is expected to win 10 to 20 seats against the 15 it had.

Chhattisgarh is slated to give Congress 46 to 56 seats in the 90-member House and 30 to 40 for the BJP.

The poll covered 21,773 respondents among eligible voters spread across 142 constituencies in the four States. The sampling was studied at the Parliamentary constituency level selected on the basis of swing zones on a random principle with an error of not more than three per cent either way.

PTI