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

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

Rao, popularly called KCR, heads the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) that spearheaded the movement for a separate state carved out of Andhra Pradesh. Telangana came into being in 2014, with KCR sworn in as its first chief minister.

Around 48 per cent of respondents expressed satisfaction with the KCR government while 26 per cent rated it bad and 16 average, according to the PSE findings.

The India Today Axis-My-India poll was based on telephone interviews across every parliamentary constituency of the state, with a sample size of 7,110.

For Telangana voters, sanitation remains a major issue followed by unemployment, agricultural problems and price rise, the PSE found.