A pre-poll survey conducted a city-based agency, has predicted that the YSRCP could get between 105 and 112 Assembly seats and 15 to 18 Lok Sabha seats in Seemandhra. The agency which carried out the statewide pre-poll survey, said it structured the sample to reflect constituency-level caste combinations of voters. The halfway mark in the 175-seat Seemandhra House is 88.
The TDP-BJP combine could win 55 to 65 Assembly seats and seven to 10 Lok Sabha seats, the survey showed. In Telangana, the agency reported that the Telangana Rashtra Samiti could emerge as the single largest party but it could be a hung Assembly with no party crossing the half-way mark of 60 in the 119-member House. The report said that Seemandhra may see the highest number of potentially winning Independent candidates, who couldn’t find a berth in either the YSRCP or the TDP.
The damage these Independents can cause needs to be watched closely, the report said. The last date for withdrawal of nominations is April 23, by which time the parties should persuade them to withdraw. The report said that its survey covered 25,000 voters. Unlike in the rest of the country, the perceived wave in favour of BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is countered by the negative impact of the party’s support to state division in Seemandhra.
