YCP Trolling PK With Vijay Exit Polls, What’s The Reality??

South Indian politics will witness a pretty significant development on May 4 as the election results for the Tamil Nadu and Kerala assembly elections will be out on this day.

Meanwhile, YSR Congress social media groups are doing all they can to target Pawan Kalyan, using the exit polls reports from Tamil Nadu assembly election.

The social media groups associated with YCP are quoting the exit poll reports from Tamil Nadu elections which are projecting a reasonably good number for Thalapathy Vijay’s TVK party.

They are making a meal out of the fact that many reports are suggesting that TVK might win double digit seats while a few reports say he might end up winning 100-120 seats as well( very impractical though).

The arguement that is being made by YCP is that Vijay, who is also an actor himself is much ahead of Pawan Kalyan in terms of political capability as they say Vijay is in a position to win as many seats while Kalyan and develop losing from both constituencies in his first election.

But in the defence of the Janasena chief, he was also able to bring massive crowds to his events during the 2019 election. But this did not necessarily convert into votes over fundamental issues and election polarisation.

More importantly, there was the strong anti-incumbency wave that supported Jagan during the election and created a YCP tsunami. So comparing the scenario of Vijay and Pawan Kalyan together is fairly illogical, considering the lack of strong opposition in Tamil Nadu.

Moreover, if Vijay ends up, actually winning 15 or 20 seats, or even more than it would ultimately humiliate YCP itself if they try to troll JSP. YCP itself went from 151 seats to 11 seats in the election, and it would be humiliating to see cinema actor Vijay polling 20 seats in his first ever polls.

Importantly, exit polls are only projections and not final results. Many times, they have turned out to be far from reality. Building strong narratives or comparisons based on these early numbers is premature. Any serious debate or conclusion should ideally wait until the official results are declared.

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