Andhdra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu was posing as a national-level leader to hide his failures in the state and the results of assembly polls in Telangana will badly backfire on him and the Congress for any alliance at the Centre, says TRS leader K. Kavitha.
The exit poll survey conducted by former Congress MP from Vijayawada Lagadapati Rajagopal on Friday has baffled everybody, as it is in sharp contrast with the several other surveys conducted by national agencies for different electronic media channels.
YSR Congress party on Saturday suggested that Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister better leave the state and settle down in Telangana.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao and his son K T Rama Rao do not tolerate any negative report against them or their party.
It is still two more days to go for the counting of votes in Telangana assembly elections, but the Telugu Desam Party seems to have conceded defeat well in advance.
If the reports doing rounds in the media circles are to be believed, the Congress high command is understood to have begun backroom negotiations with the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen to seek the latter’s support to the Maha Kootami to form the government in Telangana, if such a situation arises.
In a rude shock to Telugu Desam Party in general and its MLA from Hindupur in Anantapur district Nandamuri Balakrishna in particular, its senior leader Abdul Ghai resigned from the primary membership of the party on Saturday.
There could be a lot of difference between exit polls telecast by various national media channels and the one conducted by former Congress MP from Vijayawada Lagadapati Rajagopal, but there is some commonalty between the surveys of majority of the channels and his exit polls.
TRS seems to be in the grip of Lagadapati Rajagopal's exit poll survey, which predicted victory for Congress-led People's Front.
TRS president and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is believed to have devised a 'strategy' on elevating his son as Chief Minister of Telangana, in the event of TRS reelected to power in the Assembly election results to be announced on December 11.
The ongoing elections to the Telangana assembly are said to be the costliest ever held in this part – both in combined Andhra Pradesh and now in separate state.
Exit polls on Friday predicted a Congress sweep in Rajasthan and a Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) win in Telangana while giving the Congress an edge over the BJP in a fiercely-contested battle in both Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
While almost all the surveys by national agencies and channels predicted that Telangana Rashtra Samithi will return to power in Telangana even with a thin majority of seats, former Congress MP from Vijayawada Lagadapati Rajagopal has stuck to his earlier stand and predicted that the Maha Kootami or Praja Kootami will win the assembly elections.
About 70 percent of 2.8 voters votes in the Telangana Assembly election on Friday as the polling ended on a peaceful note, barring minor incidents.
It looks like Telangana Rashtra Samithi is going to retain power in Telangana with a slender margin in the just concluded assembly elections in the state, much to the disappointment of Maha Kootami or grand alliance of four opposition parties.
