The polling for the Andhra Pradesh assembly elections concluded in the early hours of Friday and a record 79 per cent of 3.96 crore voters exercised their franchise. The fate of the political parties is sealed in the electronic voting machiners.
But celebrations have already begun in the YSR Congress party camp, though silently.
According to highly placed sources, there was distribution of sweets in the Sakshi, the media house promoted by YSRC president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and also in the office of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) promoted by political strategist Prashant Kishor.
On Friday, Jagan went to the office of IPAC and took part in the celebrations. He thanked all the IPAC team members for the cooperation. He promised to engage IPAC services in the next elections in 2024 as well.
According to sources, I-PAC team members reportedly told Jagan that the party is going to win not less than 130 assembly seats and 22 Lok Sabha seats, as per the reports collected from the team’s field staff. Particularly, youth and unemployed had voted for YSRC in big numbers, they said.
Apparently, Prashant Kishor team told Jagan that the party workers and IPAC team members successfully ensured that all the YSRC supporters exercised their franchise enthusiastically and thwarted all the attempts of the Telugu Desam Party to prevent them from voting.
The team, however, cautioned YSRC leaders to be cautious till the last vote is counted, since Naidu is an expert in manipulation even in the counting process.