Lagadpati is Andhra Octopus?

Sports lovers have seen how accurate predictions psychic Octopus Paul offered during the World cup soccer 2010. The two-year-old octopus, born in England, began to enjoy the spotlight during the FIFA world cup tournament.

 Paul is not shy about making predictions. It predicted that Spain would win the July 11 final soccer against the Netherlands and that Germany would beat Uruguay in the playoff.

 And now, back to Andhra Pradesh, we have an Octupus that resides in Vijayawada, it is stated quite sarcastically. It is none other than Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal who knows how to hog newspaper headlines continuously.

 Rajagopal predicted the names of major winners of 2009 Assembly and Lok Sabha elections two days prior to the counting of votes. He contested the Vijayawada seat in 2009. He called a press meet to make the predictions before the counting day last year.

 Lagadpati's general predictions about the 2009 state Assembly elections came true except his own district where he went wrong. The survey, which he claimed was done after the elections, could not guess the percent of votes he should have garnered from his Lok Sabha constituency.

 At the peak of Telangana elections recently, Rajagopal is believed to have conducted a survey and sent a report on the likely nature of polling to Union Law Minister and Congress incharge for Andhra Pradesh, Veerappa Moily. As the news of the secret survey became public, Rajagopal made the survey outcome public, just a day before the counting of votes. 

The party High Command is reported to have silenced Rajgopal about the poll survey prior ro rhe elections to 12 seats in the Telangana region. The Vijayawada MP did not utter a word before the byelections, lest, it would have provided enough campaign material for the TRS leaders.

 Since the PCC president D Srinivas was also in the fray, Lagadapati refrained from visiting Vijayawada for the past two months or addressing mediapersons. As soon as the elections were over, Lagadapati called a press meet in Delhi where he divulged that many Congress and TDP leaders would forefeit their security deposits and those that resigned in January-February would be reelected in the hustings.