The Congress party and its alliance partners of Maha Kootami seem to be desperate to project to the people that they are going to win the coming elections in Telangana.
They are trying to gain a psychological edge by coming out with their own surveys, in a bid to counter the claims of Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao that his party is going to win not less than 100 seats.
On Thursday, the Congress party leaked a survey purportedly done by former Vijayawada MP and industrialist Lagadapati Rajagopal, to the media.
Obviously, the Congress sought to give some credibility to the survey, since Lagadapati’s surveys are reliable and turned out be near perfect.
According to this latest survey leaked to media in the name of Lagadapati, the Congress party is going to get 53 seats and its alliance partners of Maha Kootami will get 13 seats, including nine for TDP and two each for TJS and CPI. On the other hand, the TRS would end up with just 42 seats.
While the MIM predictably gets seven seats, the BJP will get one seat and independents three.
There is no clarity on when this survey was done, what the sample was and what methodology the survey agency followed.