NEW DELHI, Feb. 1 -- This is the season for opinion polls with hyperventilating television anchors throwing a volley of numbers at dazed viewers with an authority that at times belies the spotty track record of many pollsters. At least, most 2019 election forecasts are broadly pointing in the same direction with six major trends emerging from these findings. First, a hung Parliament seems the most likely verdict. Second, the BJP is unlikely to come anywhere close to repeating its remarkable 282-seat majority of 2014, but is still India's party number one by some distance. Third, the Congress has gained some traction in the last year but is, much like the Australian batsmen in the recent Test series, still struggling to cross the century mark. Fourth, the BJP and the Congress between them are hovering around the 300-seat mark, leaving a large space open for the non-Congress, non-BJP parties to play a crucial role in post-poll combinations....