Andhra Pradesh Assembly Election 2024 Exit Poll Fact Check: For the last few days, a post of an exit poll related to Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections is going viral on social media. In the viral post, it has been told through exit poll that who can get how many seats. The logo of The News Minute is also included in this graphic. The News Minute is a digital news platform based in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
In this viral post, exit polls of various organizations including India Today-Axis, CNN News 18-IPSOS, Times Now-VMR, Republic-Jan Ki Baat, Republic-CVoter, NewsX-NETΑ and Today’s Chanakya have been given. All exit polls have shown the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ahead of Andhra Pradesh’s current ruling party YSRCP.
In Andhra Pradesh, the NDA alliance includes the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) led by former chief minister Chandrababu Naidu, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Jana Sena Party (JSP) led by actor-politician Pawan Kalyan.
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What did the fact check reveal?
Newsmobile’s team fact checked this claim and after looking at all the facts, found it to be fake.
On reverse image searching of the viral photo, the team found that Dhanya Rajendran, editor-in-chief of The News Minute, had shared it on her X page on May 15. Reposting one of the viral claims, he wrote, “Dear TDP and YSRCP supporters. No exit poll results have come. No clue where this graphic is from.
Dear TDP and YSRCP supporters. No exit poll results have come. No clue where this graphic is from https://t.co/5o6DiTIefm
— Dhanya Rajendran (@dhanyarajendran) May 15, 2024
News Minute also said on its official X account that it had not published the alleged graphic. “This is to clarify that an old image of our story written in 2019 has been shared with the false claim that we have made predictions for the Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections.”
The post also emphasized that as per the Model Code of Conduct (MCC), no news outlet or organization is allowed to publish exit polls when elections are going on in certain parts of the country.
A ban has been imposed on the publication of any exit poll survey till June 1, the last phase of Lok Sabha and assembly elections of four states.
Us tnm Also found was a 2019 story in which exit poll predictions in Andhra Pradesh were discussed. This includes the same exit polls which have been mentioned in the viral claim. Interestingly, the figures of other parties were also similar.
Additionally, Political Research Organization Today’s Chanakya released a statement on his X page, announcing that false polling figures for Andhra Pradesh had been disseminated using his name.
What was the conclusion?
Thus we can conclude that a fake graphic predicting NDA’s victory in Andhra Pradesh is going viral on social media.
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