Ex-MP and Survey Specialist Lagadapati Rajagopal has taken the ultimate decision. He has said good bye to election surveys. He had already said at the time of releasing his poll survey at Tirupati that he would not give his predictions in future if his current survey on AP fails. It is a painful decision for him as he had already quit politics after the failure of Samaikyandhra agitation that was waged to keep AP united. He faced serious criticism for the failure of his Telangana survey in 2018.
Rajagopal’s prediction on present AP election was that TDP would win 90 to 110 MLA seats while the YCP would get 72 +/- 7 seats. The actual poll results had totally proved his survey wrong. YCP had won 151 seats while TDP had to be satisfied with just 23 seats with Jana Sena winning remaining one. No independents have won.
Rajagopal conveyed his best wishes to CM-in-Waiting YS Jaganmohan Reddy on his spectacular victory. At the same time, he called upon TDP boss Chandrababu Naidu to play the role of a constructive opposition party. Rajagopal expressed regret for the failure of his AP survey and he asked for pardon if his survey had hurt anybody in any manner.
