According to a survey conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) Lokniti Programme for Comparative Democracy, Telangana has the least corruption in comparison to other states, with only 23% of voters believing that corruption has increased in the state.
The survey, which attempted to determine whether corruption was a key electoral issue, discovered that while corruption makes voters unhappy and angry with political parties, voting decisions are not primarily guided by this opinion during elections. In 12 of 13 recent State assembly elections, more voters thought corruption had increased since the previous polls than those who thought the opposite.
In six of these 12 states, the ruling party or alliance got re-elected, and in the other six, it got voted out of power. Telangana was the only state where voters believed corruption had decreased (31.4 percent). In 2018, the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (then Telangana Rashtra Samithi) was re-elected. The survey covered 13 recent State polls held in recent years for which such data collected by the Lokniti-CSDS team.
Over the last four years, the survey, which has been conducted continuously before and after elections in various states, has not found a similar or more impressive opinion in any other state.
Among the States, Punjab led the chart with 69 percent believing that corruption increased in the State, while in Madhya Pradesh, it was 67 percent, Goa 59 percent, Karnataka 58 percent, Rajasthan 57 percent and Gujarat 53 percent.
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However, despite a significant increase in corruption and people voting for opposition parties in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, BJP governments managed to retain power in the two States, according to an analysis. Similarly, in Gujarat and Karnataka, in spite of people’s observations over rampant corruption in the government, BJP managed to get into the saddle.
The survey in Telangana also revealed that 51.7 percent believed that road conditions in the State had improved, while 84.7 percent believed that electricity supply improved.
More than 60% said the drinking water supply had improved. It also discovered that awareness on key government schemes was very high in Telangana, with 94.9 percent of respondents having heard of Rythu Bandhu, Kalyana Lakshmi/Shaadi Mubarak (95.8 percent); Amma Vodi and KCR Kit (93.2 percent), 2BHK scheme (93.8) percent and Arogyasri (96.6 percent), indicating that these also played a crucial role the second consecutive victory of the K Chandrashekhar Rao-led government.
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