Lagadapati Survey Meant For Only Betting: YSRCP

Describing former Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal's exit poll survey in Seemandhra as bogus and useless, the YSR Congress Party reiterated in Hyderabad today that it would undoubtedly get good majority in the Seemandhra assembly and form the first government.

Speaking to reporters, party spokesman Gattu Ramachandra Rao said that Rajagopal, who had announced political renunciation, has come out with the sham survey to build unnecessary hype around the TDP and encourage betting.

"With a business mind, he has embarked on this exercise for monetary gains. The survey has no basis at all, and is only meant for indulging in electoral betting," Gattu remarked.

If Rajagopal really believed that the YSRCP would lose the polls, he would have been in the electoral fray and would have contested the polls, Gattu added.

"The results show that people rejected the Congress for dividing the State. They would also reject the TDP which aligned with the BJP that aided the bifurcation," Gattu stated.

Referring to Lagadapati's assertion that people didn't believe YSRCP president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, and took TDP president Chandrababu's experience for granted, Gattu countered on a sarcastic note, "What was Chandrababu's experience that people counted on? Is it the back-stabbing act upon NTR? Or is it his 9-year regime that witnessed suicides of farmers and an 8-fold increase of power charges?"

Stating that the YSRCP never depended on surveys but always relied on the people, Gattu reasoned that municipal, MPTC and ZPTC polls were fought on local issues, and there would be a world of difference between the local polls and the Assembly elections.

"The results of the 2006 MPTC and ZPTC polls had shown us that the TDP got 38% of the vote in the MPTC polls, but only 31% vote in the ZPTC polls."

The results of the municipal polls, and the MPTC and ZPTC polls, had revealed that there was a vast change in the performance of the YSRCP, Gattu said, and stated, "The change clearly shows that we are going to get a majority and form the government in Seemandhra. We don't entertain any doubts on that count." (INN)