Press Note Eng Dt:26/10/2012 Opinion Poll
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OFFICE OF THE LEADER OF OPPOSITION
Gujarat Vidhansabha, Gandhinagar.
Press Note 26th October,2012
- Facing defeat in the coming elections, Gujarat chief Minister is resorting to false surveys and opinion polls.
- Gujarat Chief Minister will meet the fate of former Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu
- When Chandrababu Naidu realized impending debacle in polls, he started projecting his return for the next turn through managed surveys and opinion polls.
- Gujarat Chief Minister had indulged in similar types of opinion polls and surveys before 2004 and 2009 Lok Sabha elections.
Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly, Shaktisinh Gohil today launched a piercing attack on Gujarat Chief Minister for using all kinds of means to influence December elections. Referring to much publicized opinion polls predicting two-third majority to Modi, he said that it’s all a managed affair.In reality, Gohil said, there is a growing opposition to the Chief Minister because he has not done anything for the public in the last 12 years. His concern has remained promoting his businessmen friends and he has just made false promises to the people. In such a situation, Gujarat CM is pumping money into surveys to try and influence poll outcome by projecting a positive wave. He is going the way former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu who spent money to create a publicity bubble that he is Vikash Purush. He had managed even “The Best Chief Minister Tag” for himself. Naidu had even managed to project himself as CEO in politics, someone who will stay in politics for ever and become Prime Minister in India. Naidu did all this because he had realized his poll debacle. He had also tried to create an impression of complete route of Congress in Andhra Pradesh. He had even managed the exit polls, but the poll outcome showed that people do not support leaders who are creations of PR and publicity.
In 2004 Lok Sabha elections, Chief Minister had projected that he would not allow even a single Congress representative to go to Lok Sabha from Gujarat. He managed this all through the poll campaign and gave maximum three seats to Congress, but the results were that Congress bagged 12 out of 26 seats. The same was the scene in 2009 when through PM in waiting, he projected only BJP picture in Gujarat. Opinion polls gave only three to five seats to Congress. However the results once again proved the CM and his surveys wrong as Congress won 11 seats.
He said that people will not be misled by publicity stunts of the Chief Minister. People have understood importance of issues of raised by Congress in its Vikas Darshan. The CM has not fulfilled the expectations of the people in last 12 years and so voters of Gujarat will be with Congress and Congress will form the next government because of the love and support of the people.
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