India, April 30 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is headed for a historic victory in West Bengal and a third consecutive term in Assam, the Congress-led United Democratic Front is set to win power in Kerala, and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) might beat anti-incumbency and retain Tamil Nadu, a clutch of exit polls predicted on Wednesday.

In West Bengal, the largest and most important of the five regions that went to the polls in this cycle, a majority of exit polls forecast that the BJP will achieve a slender majority in the 294-member assembly, beating the Trinamool Congress (TMC). But two major agencies did not put out their predictions for the eastern state where turnouts broke previous records, fuelled by large-scale deletion...