Exit polls give Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) a majority of the 17th Lok Sabha seats in Telangana. The state had gone to the polls in the first phase on April 11.
The India Today-My Axis poll predicted that the K Chandrasekhar Rao-led TRS would secure anywhere between 10 and 12 seats, and the Congress is projected as winning 1 to 3 seats, while the BJP is also expected to bag 1 to 3 seats. AIMIM is predicted to get zero to 1 seat.
While the Times Now-VMR polls predict 13 seats for the TRS, it predicted 2 seats for Congress and 1 for the BJP. Asaduddin Owaisi’s is projected to win 1 seat.
The Republic -C Voter exit polls predict the TRS to secure 14 seats and said that the Congress would get 1, the BJP 1 and MIM 1 seat each.
The Republic-Jan Ki Baat polls have predicted the party to secure 14 to 15 seats and said that Congress would win zero to 1 seat. It predicted the BJP to get 1 and the MIM to get 1 seat each.
The CNN News18-IPSOS predicted that the TRS would win a comfortable 12 to 14 seats, the Congress would pick up 1 to 2 seats, the BJP 1 to 2 seats and the AIMIM would get 1.
News24-Chanakya has predicted the TRS to win 14 to 16 seats, the Congress, the BJP and the MIM to win zero to 1 seat each.
K Chandrashekar Rao, who has been meeting several regional leaders in the past two weeks, is hoping to stitch up a Federal Front if there is a hung Parliament. So far, only the YSRCP of Andhra Pradesh and AIMIM have openly lent their support to KCRs Federal Front initiative. Other regional parties, namely the DMK of Tamil Nadu has been urging KCR to join the camp of regional parties led by the Congress.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, the TRS won 11 seats, the AIMIM, BJP, TDP, YSRCP each picked up 1 seat and the Congress won 2 seats.
The results to the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections will be out on May 23.