It's a report chief minister Ashok Chavan would not even like to touch with a a barge pole. In what may come as a rude shock to him,u00a0 a confidential report culled from inputs given by various intelligence agencies has predicted a devastating debacle for the ruling Cong-NCP combine saying the BJP-Shiv Sena will walk away with 28 of the total 48 Lok Sabha seats in the state leaving only half, that is 14 seats for it.

Authoritative government sources told MiD Day that various reasons like voter apathy, resentment against the candidates, dissatisfaction with the ruling combine, and presence of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and the Bahujan Samaj Party in the fray were responsible for the the likely surprises on May 16, the day the counting takes place.

Incidentally, two days ago NCP chief Sharad Pawar said that the results could open a bag of surprises.

The report predicts the fall of heavyweights like Milind Deorau00a0 Gurudas Kamat in Mumbai, Union ministers Suryakantatai Patil and Vilas Muttemwar, Pankaj Bhujbal in Nashik, Suresh Kalmadi in Pune, AICC general secretary Mukul Wasnik in Ramtek, Naresh Pugalia in Chandrapur and importantly that of Bhaskarrao Patil Khatgaonkar, the brother in law of chief minister Ashok Chavan in Nanded and Padamsinh Patil, Sharad Pawar's brother in law in Osmanabad. In Latur, former CM Vilasrao Deshmukh's domain, it states the BJP will win. Chavan who did not attend PM's rally in Latur on April 21, could not be reached for comments.u00a0