AP: TDP-BJP tally set to drastically decline

A strong anti-incumbency mood in Andhra will reduce the alliance's tally to 19.

A strong anti-incumbency mood in Andhra Pradesh will substantially reduce the TDP-BJP combine's tally in the coming Lok Sabha polls to 19 as against 36 currently held by it even as the Congress-TRS alliance will enhance its strength from five to 22, a poll survey conducted for The Asian Age and 'Deccan Chronicle' dailies says.

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A majority 55 per cent of the respondents said the Vajpayee Government should get another chance to run the country against 41 per cent who said no, according to the survey conducted by market research agency AC Nielsen.

A significant 47 per cent of respondents said they would vote for the Congress and its new partner, the Telengana Rashtriya Samithi, against 46.6 per cent who said they would support the TDP-BJP alliance, the survey said.

"Though this appears to indicate that N Chandrababu Naidu and his allies are trailing by a hairbreadth, in terms of voteshare, it represents a 4.21 per cent swing in favour of the Congress-TRS combine and and a 3.15 per cent negative swing against the BJP-TDP," a release from The Asian Age quoting the poll said.

In all, 2148 voters were polled across 12 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state over the last week of March and the first week of April, it said.

"The main reason that those who voted for the TDP in 1999 and now intend to vote for the Congress cite for the switch is the perception that the TDP has been responsible for increase in prices, not providing adequate help to farmers and for water and power supply problems, it said.