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Lagadapati’s survey irks leaders

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HYDERABAD: Congress MP from Vijayawada Lagadapati Rajagopal has drawn flak from party leaders, whose names were found missing from the list of winning candidates in the election survey he had commissioned.

Mr. Rajagopal opened a Pandora’s box by publicising the results that gave 155 Assembly seats to the Congress and predicting neck-to-neck contest in other 54 segments. He put the final figure of successful Congress candidates between 175-189 and those in the Parliamentary constituencies at 33.

Several Ministers, who, the survey predicted, would lose, expressed displeasure at this. “Who has authorised him to conduct the survey? Did he take the permission of the APCC or the high command,” an agitated Minister questioned on Friday. A couple of leaders, who visited the Congress Legislature Party, questioned the methodology adopted by the organisations to conduct exit polls. “There is factual error in the exit poll results. The survey gave one or two Assembly seats to the Congress while predicting outright win for both the Parliamentary constituencies in some districts,” a party leader pointed out.

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