New Delhi, 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 deletions under the special intensive revision (SIR). In Tamil Nadu, all but one exit poll predicted that the DMK-led alliance might achieve a majority in the 234-member assembly. AxisMyIndia predicted that actor-turned-politician Vijay could pip both Dravidian majors and end up as the single-largest party - even get a majority - in what could be Tamil Nadu's first genuinely three-cornered contest in a generation, with the complete collapse of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK). In Puducherry, all exit polls predicted that the National Democratic Alliance was set for victory. The votes will be counted on Monday. To be sure, exit polls are not always accurate and have often got the verdict wrong in earlier elections, especially when diverse populations, castes and communities are at play. In 2021, most exit polls put out wrong predictions for West Bengal, where the TMC won a landslide victory. Similar missteps marked the forecast for the 2024 general elections. The exit polls came after a weeks-long bruising campaign across the five regions where questions of development, identity, deletions under SIR, and local anti-incumbency dominated. Three of the states that went to the polls - Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala - have never seen a BJP government and represent the final frontier for the party. The NDA is in power in Assam, where it hopes to come back to power for a third consecutive time, and Puducherry, where it is attempting a second straight shot at forming the government....