Jayaprakash Narayan’s Lok Satta Party collapsed stunningly in Andhra and Telangana regions going by the data released by election commission. Among 15 political parties that competed, Lok Satta Party stood 12th in terms of vote share in all the assembly constituencies put together in Andhra and Telangana. The data reveals that even an aborted campaign of Jai Samaikyandra Party fetched it more votes than LSP. In fact, parties like BSP, which do not command much presence in AP, scored more than double the votes of LSP! One more interesting fact is that LSP managed lesser votes than even the number of NOTA votes polled in AP. The results raises questions on the agenda of LSP and the commitment of it’s ...

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