Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao convened the State Cabinet meeting on December 4. The Cabinet meeting to be presided over by the Chief Minister will be held at 2 p.m., according to a statement from the Chief Minister’s Office.
The meeting will be held at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s secretariat a day after the counting of votes polled in the Assembly elections on November 30. The ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) is confident of retaining power, despite most of the exit polls giving an edge to Congress.
BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao dismissed the exit polls as ‘nonsense’ and ‘rubbish’ and predicted that BRS will form the government once again with more than 70 seats in the 119-member Assembly.
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Meanwhile, BRS Working President KT Rama Rao expressed confidence that the party, led by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar, would secure over 70 seats and return to power in Telangana. Dismissing exit polls, he urged party workers not to be swayed by predictions based on limited samples, emphasizing the unreliability of such surveys in the past.
Rao criticized national media for conducting surveys with a small pool of respondents and highlighted their previous inaccuracies. He challenged the credibility of exit polls, particularly given that people were still queuing up to vote. Rao questioned the wisdom of declaring results prematurely and urged media houses to reconsider the impact on candidates’ morale.
Expressing concern over the Election Commission’s decision to allow exit polls to be aired while voting was ongoing, Rao called for a revision in timings to ensure the results are published only after polling concludes. He asserted that the premature release of exit polls could potentially influence voters and criticized the lack of accountability in correcting inaccuracies.
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