Did Loksatta split votes of TDP or TDP split votes of Loksatta?

For the last few days, TDP has been saying that, it lost because of the votes split by Loksatta. It is well known that, most of the people who voted for Loksatta has TDP as the second preference. That's why TDP is saying like that. But, I would say, Loksatta lost because of TDP. Because, many people voted for TDP eventhough they wanted to vote for Loksatta, with the only reason that, they did not want Congress to come back to power. Due to some external reasons, many votes went to TDP from Loksatta. That's why, I would say, TDP has split the votes of Loksatta, and not the other way.