Jagan'll Sweep, If Polls Are Held Now: Lagadapati

Like Octopus Paul which had accurately predicted all the results in the last year’s soccer world cup, Congress MP from Vijayawada Lagadapati Rajagopal also has gained the nick name Andhra Octopus for conducting accurate pre-poll and post-poll surveys.
Lagadapati has come out with a latest survey on the impact of YSR Congress Party floated by former Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on the Congress party prospects in the state.
In his survey report submitted to the Congress high command, Lagadapati has predicted that if the mid-term elections are held now, the YSR Congress Party would walk away with huge number of seats, damaging the Congress party to a great extent. He also predicted that the Jagan party would sweep the by-elections to both Kadapa Lok Sabha seat and Pulivendula assembly seat.
It may be mentioned that most of the surveys conducted by Lagadapati turned out to be more or less accurate. During the last by-elections to 12 assembly seats in the Telangana region, Lagadapati predicted that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi would win the by-elections in all the 11 assembly constituencies it contested with thumping majority and that the Telugu Desam Party would not get deposit in majority of the seats. True to his predictions, the TRS had won all the seats it contested with huge majority and the TDP lost deposits everywhere.
In 2009 general elections, too, Rajagopal predicted that the Congress would get more than 30 Lok Sabha seats and 155-160 assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh. And the results proved him right: the Congress got 33 MP seats and 156 assembly seats!