YSRCP rubbishes poll survey

Hyderabad, April 2 : Rubbishing the latest poll survey which was carried out by a national media house, YSR Congress said it has no sanctity and it seems to be conducted only to project TDP though a magnifying glass without going into the ground realities.

“The size of the sample shows that the survey carried out by CNN-IBN-Lokniti-CSDS has taken a very small size and has taken up the exercise only to project TDP and Chandrababu Naidu. The credibility of the channel is at stake as the survey has many loopholes,” party senior leader Dr MV Mysoora Reddy told reporters here on Wednesday.

The survey has taken just 1,200 as sample size which is too small to carry out the exercise and psephologists would be aghast at the manner it was conducted.

Nelson ORG Marg has earlier conducted a similar survey and has taken the sample size as 50,000 and has concluded that YSRCP wave is sweeping across the state. We are not supportive of one survey nor opposing the other but only questioning the rationale of the sample size of CNN-IBN survey, he said.

“We are not against any surveys and we know the pulse of the people and the direction in which the wind is blowing and it is contrary to the survey figures and percentages.

We are forced to say that the survey is nothing but juggling of figures as it has given 14% of votes to others without specifying them The others in the fray are Jana Sena of Pawan Kalyan, who is not sure whether he would contest or not. Lok Satta, CPI and CPM all put together will come to 4.4 %. Where from the 14 % of others has come is not specified and it is superfluous as that much percentage swing would give a landslide victory,” he said.

Senior Journalist P Sainath, former Press Secretary to Prime Minister Sanjay Baru had rejected the CNN-IBN survey and expressed contrasting opinions live, he said. “The survey figures do not match to ground realities they said on the show.” CNN-IBN surveys were never close to reality and there were huge variations in the past, he said.

TDP is going down on its knees to have a tie-up with BJP as it has no strength of its own to at least put up a fight in this election.

The Party SC Cell Convenor, Nalla Suryaprakash, who also addressed the media, flayed TDP leader P Kesavulu for his highhanded behaviour against a dalit family in his constituency. The imminent defeat of TDP has brought in insecurity and restlessness among the party leaders; he said adding that no case was booked against the TDP leader for the attack. Dalits will not take things lying low like in Karamchedu and the consequences will be severe, he said.  INN