Even as just a few hours are left for the counting of votes in the Andhra Pradesh assembly elections which would decide the fate of the ruling YSR Congress party and the opposition Telugu Desam Party, a rebel YSRCP member of state legislative council was disqualified from his membership.
The night of June 3rd in the USA happens to be the morning of June 4th in India. Needless to say, India is going to witness the election results in almost all the states and the center.
The Election Commission of India is following one rule in Andhra Pradesh and another rule in the rest of the country about the validity of the postal ballots, said YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) on Monday.
In another 24 hours, there will be clarity on who is going to be the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh – will it be YSR Congress party president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy again or will Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu return to power again after a gap of five years.
In a big setback to YSR Congress party MLA from Macherla assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh’s Palnadu district, the Supreme Court on Monday asked him not come anywhere near the vote counting centre at Macherla.
Several television news channels, popular survey agencies and small-time local survey teams, besides independent psephologists came out with their own exit polls in the last two days over the outcome of the general elections across the country and that of Andhra Pradesh assembly elections.
When the majority of exit polls, especially those of the national media, are predicting the victory of the Alliance, it is Aaraa Mastan who turned heads by predicting the win of YCP.
In recent times, some political leaders have become excessively focused on propaganda, making outrageous statements solely to gain media attention and approval from their superiors.
The India Today-Axis My India exit poll predicts a significant victory for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the Andhra Pradesh assembly elections, forecasting 98-120 seats out of 175.
Since the beginning of the election season, various organizations have rushed to conduct surveys in different ways, revealing their results at every stage.
Today, about a hundred exit-polls have come to light, each presenting different numbers based on their interests and anticipations.
TimesNow has been the media house predicting that YCP would win 24-25 out of 25 Lok Sabha seats for many months in the past.
It appears the psephologists, survey agencies and media houses seem to have failed to read the pulse of the voters exactly in Andhra Pradesh, as is evident from the different verdicts through exit polls on the recent elections in the state.
Even as various media houses and independent agencies release their exit polls and post-poll survey results of the assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh, analysts suggest that two factors will determine the fate of the political parties.
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