Lokniti-CSDS Survey Predicting TDP Win in Andhra Pradesh is Fake

A viral post citing a Lokniti-CSDS survey of Andhra Pradesh voters has been doing the rounds on social media.  

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CLAIM

A viral post citing a Lokniti-CSDS survey has been doing the rounds on social media.

The post claims that the survey points towards a clean-sweep for the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in the state in the upcoming elections, owing to its leader Chandrababu Naidu’s policies.

The survey quoted in the post predicts a landslide win for the TDP, with the party winning 126-135 Assembly seats and 18-22 Lok Sabha seats. While the YS Jaganmohan Reddy-led YSR Congress Party, it says, will manage to get 45-50 Assembly seats and 3-5 Lok Sabha seats.

The survey documents also enlists the following reasons for TDP’s massive victory: “Confidence on Leadership, Welfare Schemes, Development and Weak Opposition.”

The post has been shared by several individual users and a handful of pages on Facebook.

The survey figures were also cited by local news portals.

According to a report in Boom Live, News outlet ABN AndhraJyothi had carried the fake survey on its news channel ABN Telugu and its newspaper Andhra Jyothi.

THE TRUTH

The survey shared in the viral post is fake and the numbers quoted in the survey are baseless.

Lokniti-CSDS, the organisation in whose name the post was shared, came forward on Twitter on Monday, 1 April, to confirm that the survey was indeed fake.

Here is the official statement released by Lokniti-CSDS:

The official statement released by Lokniti-CSDS following the fake news posts.(Photo: Twitter/@LoknitiCSDS)

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