New Delhi: Over three years into office, Prime Minister Narendra Modis popularity is still at par with what it was in 2015, and 70 per cent Indians are “satisfied” with the way things are going in the country, a Pew survey of 2,464 respondents shows.
Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday drew media’s attention towards the “detailed” survey by the US-based think tank which, Prasad emphasised, was “well reputed and credible”.
According to the survey, conducted among 2,464 respondents in India from February 21 to March 10 this year, nearly 90 per cent Indians hold a favorable opinion of Modi, comparable to their view of him in 2015, after a year in office.
Roughly 70 per cent say they have a very favorable view of the Prime Minister. It says that since 2015, Modi’s popularity is relatively unchanged in the north, has risen in the west and the south and is down slightly in the east.
It points out that Modi’s favorable rating is 31 percentage points higher than that of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, and 30 points higher than that of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi.
Overall, 70 per cent Indians are “satisfied” with the way things are going in the country. This positive assessment of India’s direction has nearly doubled since 2014, it says.
India has a population of around 1.30 billion, of which, 814.5 million people were eligible to vote, that is, those who are above 18 years of age as per the Election Commission of India data.
The survey did not include Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Kerala and the entire northeast. (IANS)
