India, May 21 -- Giving his assessment of Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) time in power, top psephologist and Axis My India founder Pradeep Gupta on Wednesday said the party currently in Centre can remain in power as long as its governance performance does not see a sharp drop.

Pradeep Gupta, whose Axis My India exit poll has correctly predicted several election outcomes, drew a parallel with the long period of dominance once enjoyed by the Congress, Gupta suggested that Indian politics was witnessing another cycle of one-party predominance.

Giving a ballpark estimate on the number of years the BJP is likely to stay in power, Pradeep Gupta said party's current phase of political dominance, which began in 2014, is likely to last "at least...