PRESS TRUST OF INDIA - New Delhi, April 8: The BJP and its NDA allies are likely to fall short of majority, securing between 230 and 265 seats in the coming Lok Sabha elections while the Congress and its partners may bag 170 to 200 seats, according to an opinion poll conducted for news magazine The Week. 

The "others" comprising parties like Samajwadi Party, BSP, CPI-M, CPI and JD-S will get 95 to 110 seats, said the poll conducted by market research agency TNS among 17,513 voters across 143 constituency between March 25 and 
April 1. 

This is the first survey which predicts that the NDA would fail to reach the majority mark.

Source: Express India