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| Pre-poll survey shows Rahul is not the people's choice | | Mood of the nation | | Neha
Jammu, Sept 7: ABP News and Neilsen conducted one more pre-poll survey to find which way the wind is blowing. The survey shows that an anti-Congress wave is sweeping the country. The survey was conducted in August covering 28 big cities and towns. The survey teams across these 28 cities and towns interviewed more than 8000 eligible voters to find their choice.
The findings of the pre-poll survey suggested that Sonia Gandhi's son and AICC vice president and number two in the Congress party Rahul Gandhi has failed to click and only 18 per cent of the people who were interviewed wanted him to become the Prime Minister. Only 14 per cent of the voters who were interviewed voted for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. As for the Congress, only 22 per cent of the eligible voters who were interviewed by the survey teams wanted the Congress to form the next government.
On the other hand, the findings of the pre-poll survey showed that Gujarat Chief Minister and chairman of the BJP election committee Narendra Bhai Modi was the choice of whopping 47 per cent of the eligible voters. Indeed, a huge difference when compared with the popularity/unpopularity graph of Rahul Gandhi. As for the BJP, 36 per cent of the eligible voters who were interviewed by the survey teams voted for it. In 2009, the BJP had got only 18 per cent of the total votes polled. In other words, the BJP has considerably improved its position. The difference between the two parties is huge - 14 per cent.
So, it is clear that the BJP will emerge as the single largest party in the Lok Sabha in case the general election is held today. This was not the first pre-poll survey that predicted defeat of the Congress and the UPA. All the surveys which were conducted during the past two years or so have predicted defeat of the Congress party. It was no wonder then that senior Congress leader and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on August 31 urged the executive committee members of the JKPCC to prepare themselves for the impending election, saying the Congress had only five months at their disposal. It was clear from what Azad said that the Congress would lose more ground if the elections are held at the scheduled time. |
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