Republic TV Poll Predicting TDP and JSP Winning Andhra Pradesh Elections is Fake

Republic TV clarified on their official X (formerly Twitter) that this image of survey results is fake.

Fact-check: Republic TV did not conduct any pre-elections survey before Andhra Pradesh elections.

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An image showing Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and its alliance partner, Jana Sena Party (JSP) winning 132 seats in a survey conducted pre-elections in Andhra Pradesh is going viral on social media.

• The image carried Republic TV's logo and claims that the news channel conducted this survey on 8 February.

• It also shows the Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) securing just 41 seats.

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What's the truth?: Republic TV clarified on their official X (formerly Twitter) that this image showing the survey results is fake.

• We found no other pre-poll surveys about Andhra Pradesh.

How did we find out the truth?: We check Republic TV's official website and social media handles including, Facebook, YouTube and X, to look for the mentioned survey about Andhra Pradesh's polls 2024.

• We did not find any such survey or survey results about the polls.

• However, we did find a clarification from the news channel on their X account dated 8 February.

• Republic Media Network called the image "morphed" and specified that they have not conducted any pre-election surveys in Andhra Pradesh yet.

Conclusion: A fake pre-election survey results about the TDP and JSP alliance winning the majority of the seats in the Andhra Pradesh elections is going viral on the internet.

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