Survey predicts 13 LS seats each to YSRCP and TRS

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TRS, YSR Congress to walk away with 13 MP seats each, TDP to improve tally to nine, says C-Voter surve
NEW DELHI: The Congress party will suffer huge losses, while Telangana Rashtra Samithi and YSR Congress party will be the biggest beneficiaries in Andhra Pradesh in the 2014 general elections.

This was revealed in the latest survey conducted by Centre for Voting Opinion & Trends in Election Research (C-VOTER) in association with national news channels India TV and Times Now.

The State of the Nation survey was done among national representative sample of 24,284 randomly selected respondents between August 16 and October 15.

The survey predicted that the Congress would end up with just 7 Lok Sabha seats in 2014 as against 33 in 2009 general elections ' a drastic fall of 27 seats.

On the other hand, the TRS would get 13 MP seats in 2014, as against just two seats in 2009 in the Telangana region. Similarly, the YSR Congress party, which was not in existence in 2009, would also get 13 Lok Sabha seats.

Interestingly, the Telugu Desam Party, which had won six Lok Sabha seats in 2009, is also going to improve its tally to 8 in 2014 ' a gain of two seats.

However, the survey has obviously not taken into consideration the latest decision of the Congress high command and the UPA government to divide Andhra Pradesh to carve out separate Telangana State and the possible merger of the TRS with the Congress party.

If that happens, the TRS tally of 13 MP seats would automatically go into the account of the Congress party, which would end up with 19 MP seats.

At the national level, the survey predicted a hung Parliament with the National Democratic Alliance overtaking UPA. The key to power at the Centre will be held by "Others", consisting of mainly regional parties, who are projected to get 240 out of a total of 543 Lok Sabha seats, the survey said.

Regional parties currently outside the ambit of both UPA and NDA would hold the key to formation of next government at the Centre in 2014 with the BJP-led NDA being projected well ahead of the ruling UPA headed by the Congress.

Apart from Andhra Pradesh, the Congress is also set to face huge losses in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Kerala, where it had got a good number of seats last time. There would be good gains for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, and a reversal of fortune in Rajasthan.

According to the survey, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA would improve its 2009 tally of 159 to 186 in 2014, the Congress-led UPA would slide from 259 to a paltry 117.

The survey projected 35 per cent vote share for the NDA against 27 per cent for the UPA and 38 per cent for the regional parties.