Within a day of the popular English magazine India Today coming out with the Mood of the Nation-2021 survey disclosing that the popularity graph of YSR Congress party president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is on the decline, the party leaders shot back describing it as a fake survey.
The India Today survey revealed that Jagan Mohan Reddy ranked No.
16 among the popular chief ministers in the country with more than 80 per cent of the people in the state being unhappy with his governance.
Within no time, the anti-Jagan and pro-Telugu Desam Party media have launched a massive campaign stating that Jagan was fast losing the support of the people because of his lopsided policies in the last two years.
The opposition parties, too, have lost no opportunity to launch a tirade against the Jagan government.
However, the YSRC leaders said the survey report was far from true, as Jagan has attained an indelible place in the hearts of the people of the state and he would continue to be a permanent chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.
“The India Today survey is just humbug. The popularity of Jagan is intact and in fact, it is on the rise in Andhra Pradesh. It is pretty evident that the survey was a plant of the opposition forces who are not able to digest the popularity of the chief minister,” YSRC MLA and former minister Nallapureddy Prasanna Kumar Reddy said.
He, however, said such fake surveys would do no harm to either Jagan or the YSRC.
“As long as the people are with him, nothing will happen to him or the ruling party. Those conducting such surveys should do field visits and know the reality at the ground level,” Prasanna said.
The MLA said India Today had lost its credibility by conducting such fake survey. “I suspect the hand of some vested interests behind the survey and they had done it deliberately,” he said.
Prasanna pointed out that many such surveys conducted in the past turned out to be far from reality in several states.
“When the entire country is looking up to Jagan’s style of administration, the yellow media is trying to sling mud at Jagan by highlighting such bogus surveys. They can’t pluck even a single hair of the chief minister,” the former minister added.
