There has been a talk for the last few days that ruling Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh headed by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu will lose the ongoing assembly elections in the state.
Several national and regional media houses and independent agencies, which conducted their pre-election surveys, have unanimously concluded that TDP will be defeated in the elections and YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy will be the next chief minister of AP.
Most of these surveys have predicted that YSRC will get 110-120 seats, while the TDP will end up with 50-60 seats in the 175-member state assembly.
Only a few agencies predicted that there would be neck-to-neck fight in the elections. Power star Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena will either draw blank or win a maximum of 3-5 seats.
In the Lok Sabha elections, too, the YSRC is expected to get 17-22 seats, while the TDP will win three to seven seats.
But an independent survey purported to have been commissioned by Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in Andhra Pradesh is learnt to have given astonishing results.
According to the sources, the survey commissioned by KCR has predicted that Naidu’s TDP will get seven to eight Lok Sabha seats, but will fare extremely bad in the assembly elections.
“The TDP will end up with just around 30-40 seats in the assembly. Under any circumstances, its tally will not go beyond 40,” the survey predicted.
If KCR’s predictions are true, it will be a disaster in waiting for the TDP!