‘With NDA We Will Have a Comfortable Majority’: BJP’s Ram Madhav

“If we get 271 seats on our own, we will be very happy,” Madhav said in an interview to Bloomberg.

The Bharatiya Janata Party will need the support of its allies to form a government this time around, said the incumbent party’s national general secretary Ram Madhav, in an interview with Bloomberg.

"If we get 271 seats on our own, we will be very happy," Madhav said in an interview with Bloomberg News’ Editor-in-Chief in New Delhi on Saturday. "With NDA we will have a comfortable majority," he said.

Notably, this estimate of less than half seats in the Lok Sabha is far lower that what other prominent leaders of the BJP have proclaimed.

However, a day after he made the statement, Madhav went back on it while speaking to ANI. He said,