Telangana politics are heating increasing the temperatures in the already hot summer as all parties are conducting secret surveys to findout their strengths and weaknesses in the runup to the 2019 elections.
Telangana CM KCR and the ruling TRS party already got many secret surveys done and are planning their strategies accordingly. Not to be left behind is the opposition parties Congress, TDP and BJP.
According to the latest, a survey recently conducted is creating a sensation in T-Politics. Bengaluru based Political Quotient conducted the survey and as such the survey found no change in the positions of the opposition parties from 2014 and now. The survey was conducted between April 2 and April 15 and covered 13,000 polling booths across Telangana state, with a sample of 1,19,000 respondents.
According to the survey, KCR is the most preferred with 47.5% people rooting for him while T-TDP working president Revanth Reddy came a distant second with 19.16% votes. K. Jana Reddy (Congress - 11.39%), N. Uttam Kumar Reddy (Congress-7.66%), L. Ramana (TD - 1.44%), S. Jaipal Reddy (Congress- 1.20%), G. Kishan Reddy (BJP- 2.88%), Dr K. Laxman (BJP- 0.77%), Shabbir Ali (Congress- 0.63%), P. Muralidhar Rao (BJP-0.44%) and 3.18 per cent others stood in the list.
People felt that Congress is best suited to fight for their rights while next came TDP and then BJP. Revanth Reddy however was the best opposition leader with 30.91% votes and next came K. Jana Reddy (22.24%), N. Uttam Kumar Reddy (12.04%), G. Kishan Reddy (9.04%) and L. Ramana (3.12%).
Here are the other findings in the survey.
TRS rule rating
Very good: 44.21%
Average: 16.87%
Very bad: 32.69%
Cannot say: 6.23%
32.90% say they are the beneficiaries of the schemes implemented by Government, 62.66 % say they are not beneficiaries and 4.44 % refused to comment
Local MLAs performance
Satisfied :40.24%
Average :22.34%
Not satisfied :32.40%
Cannot say :5%
As for the performance of the TRS government, 38.02% said that it was as per their expectations, while 48.12 % said that life of the poor and farmers did improve after bifurcation.
TRS government performance
Satisfied: 38.02%
Dissatisfied : 38.50%
Average: 20.09%
Cannot say: 3.37%
Standard of living improved:48.12%
No change: 43 73%
Cannot say: 8.14%
Government schemes
Aasara pensions: 35.41%
Kalyana Lakshmi/Shaadi Mubarak: 21.59%
2BHK houses:11.79%
Supportive prices for farmers : 2.94%
Mission Kakatiya: 7.94%
Farm loan waiver: 4.23%
Land Distribution to Dalits: 2.84%
Ration card: 2.44%
Mission Bhagiratha: 2.83 %
Fee reimbursement: 3.96%
