Political Stock Exchange: 43 per cent respondents favour KCR as next Telangana CM

Telangana's caretaker chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao is far ahead of any competition as the state prepares for early polls following his decision to dissolve the assembly prematurely, according to the findings of India Today's Political Stock Exchange (PSE).

The PSE, India's first-ever weekly tracker of the country's political pulse, found as many as 43 percent of respondents voting in favour of the incumbent.

State Congress president Uttam Kumar Reddy figured at a distant second, securing 18 percent of votes, the PSE survey found. The Telangana BJP leader, G. Kishan Reddy, trailed at 15 percent.