Jaisalmer, Nov 26: Lok Sabh polls would be held as scheduled next year irrespective of the outcome of assembly polls in four states, BJP General Secretary Pramod Mahajan said here today. "The elections for Lok Sabha would be held in September next year as scheduled whichever way the elections of four state assemblies go", Mahajan told reporters here.

Claiming that BJP would sweep assembly polls in all the four states, including Rajasthan where, he said, there was a "strong wave" in favour of his party, Mahajan said all pre-poll survey would be proved wrong. "For the first time BJP would cross the 100 seats mark in 200 member house in desert state as people were angry with misrule of Congress government", he said.
He claimed there was a sympathy wave in Chattisgarh for Dilip Singh Judeo, who resigned as union minister after surfacing of a video tape involving him in alleged corruption scandal, and said it would help the BJP.

"It (the tape) is an election gimmick created by Chattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi who himself was facing CBI probe into forged documents submitted by him", Mahajan said. Questioning the role of Congress in stamp scam he said refusal of the party for a CBI probe indicated there was "daal mein kaala jaroor hai" (there is some thing fishy about it).

Bureau Report