As counting of votes began in Uttarakhand, Congress leader and former Chief Minister Harish Rawat said he is confident of his party's victory in the polls and said the Congress may win nearly 48 seats in the 70-member Assembly.
An opinion poll telecast on Sunday predicted that Congress has an upper hand in Punjab and Goa while it is a neck-and-neck fight between Congress and BJP in Uttarakhand while BJP has an edge in Manipur.