New Delhi: Results of the current ABP News – Nielsen nationwide opinion poll have revealed that Narendra Modi is the most favoured candidate for Prime Minister, with almost 57 per cent of the respondents being in its favour. The ratings are slightly up when compared to the survey held in January 2014, which had 53% of the respondents favouring Modi.
On the other hand, Rahul Gandhi seems to have gained some ground as 18% of the respondents have favoured him this time, while previously he had been backed by only 15% of the respondents.
The previous survey had been conducted between 28th of December 2013 to 12th of January 2014 while this survey was conducted between 4th of February to 15th of February 2014, and over 29000 people across the country were interviewed.
A closer look at the results reveals that Narendra Modi has been rated as the most favoured Prime Minister in almost all the states,
except for Kerala, where Rahul Gandhi has been rated the favourite
This result is in keeping with almost all the previous opinion polls which have shown that so far BJP’s PM candidate has so far failed to impress south India.
Top takers for Modi:
The top five states which rated the BJP PM candidate as their favourite are Gujarat (78%), Haryana (75%), Jharkhand (74%), Chhattisgarh (73%) and Bihar (72%). In all these states it is Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi who came in second after Narendra Modi.
Deviating trends:
States where different trends have been spotted are Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Delhi.
In Kerala Rahul Gandhi has been voted the most favoured PM candidate with 38%. He is followed by Narendra Modi at 32%.
Deviating from the trend, respondents in Tamil Nadu have favoured Jayalalitha (24%) after Modi (38%). Rahul Gandhi falls to the third here at 17%.
Delhi is the only state where the Aam Aadmi Party’s presence can be seen with 33% of the respondents have favoured Arvind Kejriwal, right after Modi at 44%. Here too Rahul Gandhi is on the third position at 18%. But if the results are compared to the January survey then Rahul Gandhi has actually gained ground, while both Modi and Kejriwal have lost some supporters. In January Rahul Gandhi had failed to find any takers while Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal had 49% and 41% backers respectively.
It should be noted here that as Arvind Kejriwal resigned on 14th of January and this survey was conducted only till 15th, the effects of the current upheavals in Delhi cannot be read into it.
Pressing issues:
Price rise, inflation and corruption turned out to be the largest issue affecting people all over the country.
46% of the respondents said that inflation and price are issues that affect them most on a daily basis.
It was closely followed by corruption at 34%.
Both inflation and corruption have been rated almost at par with each other, all over the county, as the issues that affect people the most. The only difference is Karnataka where 43% of the respondents found it to be more pressing than inflation (39%).
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