Times Now poll survey a sham: YSRCP

Hyderabad, April 17, 2013: YSR Congress party on Wednesday called the Times Now TV channel poll survey a sham as its surveys have no credibility and asserted that YSRCP would get more than 30 seats in Lok Sabha besides forming the next Government in the state whenever elections are held.

Addressing a press meet here, party spokesperson Ambati Rambabu said the surveys of the channel proved to be a miserable failure in the past. “The survey has no accuracy and scientific validity,” he said, adding, its exit polls prediction in 2009 had turned to be false.

He said generally exit poll results would give more accuracy but the poll results of the channel in 2009 LS elections that Congress would get 15, Maha Kutami 22, PRP 4 and MIM 1 proved to be false as the results were correct only in case of MIM.

There is a world of difference between the exit polls and the actual results as Congress got 33 seats, he observed, adding people do not believe such sham surveys.

The Times Now opinion poll is therefore a false and sham exercise, he said, asserting that YSRCP would get more than 30 seats leading to the party chief Sri Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy playing a key role in the Government formation at the Centre. “The YSRCP will also form the next Government in the state,” he observed.

Naidu basking in the false glory

Making fun of the Times Now survey, Rambabu said TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu has been basking in the glory of a false and inspired survey that his party would get 9 seats, increasing its tally by 3 from the earlier projections.

“Naidu must note that TDP’s vote share gradually dipped to 20 per cent in 2009 from its share of 45 per cent in 1995, he said and added: “It came down further to 20 per cent in 2010 as per the projections of the Mood on the Nation survey.”

He said the declining vote share of TDP had made the party lose deposits in 26 of the 42 assembly seats and 2 LS seats for which by polls were held after 2009.

“When the Times of India in 2009 said Mahakutami would get 22 LS seats, it got 8 seats. Its channel Times Now is now telling TDP will get 9 seats. Calculating at this rate, it will not get even a single seat,” he said, taking a dig at TDP