Almost all exit polls have shown a thumping win for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Some polls have given the party as many as 27 of the 29 seats in Madhya Pradesh. The million-dollar question now is: Who will get credit if the party performs so well in the state? Former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is the favourite as he addressed more than 140 public meetings. If the meetings he attended in other states are taken into account, the count will be more than 220. In the run-up to the election he, on an average, addressed five to six