A survey has said that the Congress party is making slow but sure progress in popular perception ahead of the assembly elections.
The survey report said that the rise in the perception graph is mainly due to the huge success of the Tukkuguda public meeting addressed by Sonia Gandhi and the announcement of the ‘six guarantees’ to the people of the state.
According to the weekly tracker survey report, the Congress support base has gone up by 0.9 percentage points over the last week.Last week, it stood at 39 per cent while this week, it has gone up to 39.9 per cent.The survey has shown that there is a positive sentiment after the announcement of the six guarantees.
At the same time, the survey has said that the BRS still continues to be ahead with a significant lead.
The Congress will have to do a lot more ground work to regain the ground, the survey said.The survey said that the BJP’s voting percentage stood at just 9 per cent this week and has remained more and less constant over the last week.
Decimated by the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (then Telangana Rashtra Samithi) in the 2018 Assembly elections, and subsequently weakened by defections and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s growing presence, the Congress in Telangana – over the last five years or more – was slowly being pushed to third place, losing its principal opposition status in the nine-year-old state.
But taking a leaf out of its Karnataka playbook, the party dangled six guarantees before the voters at its massive ‘Vijayabheri’ rally in Hyderabad last week – focusing its efforts on women, farmers, youth, and senior citizens.
The mammoth crowd gathered at the rally notwithstanding, the Congress appeared to be in a position of strength – something the party hasn’t been able to showcase for a while now.
Moreover, with scores of BRS leaders – from former MP Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy to senior leaders like Tummala Nageswara Rao, Malkajgiri MLA Mynampally Hanumantha Rao – joining the Congress over the last few months, the grand old party appears poised to give a tough fight to the ruling party led by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
