The BJP is on course to emerge as the biggest party in the approaching general elections, a third poll in as many days showed on Saturday.The opposition party, which has named Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as its candidate for prime minister , is set to win a record 210 seats in the 543-seat parliament while the ruling Congress party will sink to its lowest ever tally at 81 seats, according to a poll by news channel ABP News and consultancy Nielsen.The National Democratic Alliance , a coalition of parties led by the BJP, will form the government at the Centre with an overall 226 seats, predicted the ABP News-Nielsen national opinion poll.The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which defied predictions to grab a record number of seats in the recent Delhi assembly elections and formed the government with Congress support, is forecast to get around 11 seats. Two other opinion polls on Thursday threw up similar results, though the tally of parties differed.A survey by pollsters CVoter and the India Today media group said the BJP is poised to win 188 seats, more than double the number of seats that the Congress will win.Another poll, by pollsters CSDS and news channel CNN-IBN, forecast that the BJP would win majority of the votes in many of the big states that are pivotal to the outcome of the general elections.The party is predicted to win 41-49 of the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh, which being the most populous state has the highest number of Lok Sabha seats, according to that survey.Despite the similar results, all the three polls confirm the widely held belief that the elections will throw up a hung parliament — neither the BJP nor the Congress is expected to win the 272 seats needed for an outright majority.That said, the BJP is better placed because smaller parties show a propensity to gravitate towards the party that wins the most number of seats.The Congress, which has yet to name its prime ministerial candidate but said vicepresident Rahul Gandhi will lead the fight, faces a tough battle because its image has been sullied over a string of corruption scandals and sluggish economic growth.The ABP News-Nielsen survey confirmed the anti-incumbency mood, with 61% of respondents against giving another chance to the UPA government . Forty three percent respondents have rated the government’s performance as ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’ 69.The ABP News-Nielsen poll also said Modi seems to be the clear choice of people for the position of prime minister, with 53% respondents voting for him. Gandhi was the choice of 15% respondents and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal received a nod from 5%.