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India Today CVoter Survey predict the Mood of the Nation poll: Narendra Modi's popularity is waning, but he remains the best choice for PM.
The latest study, based on a national representative sample of 15,815 randomly selected respondents across 28 states between August 2 and 10, comes as a setback to the Gujarat chief minister, who has been banking on his popularity to emerge as the BJP's prime ministerial candidate.
The opinion poll shows that Modi is preferred by only 45 per cent people as the future prime minister as compared to 57 per cent in the previous survey, held in January this year.
He, however, continues to be the most popular face among those in the prime ministerial race with Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi finishing again next to him. Like Modi, the Gandhi scion's popularity has also been waning as he polled 32 per cent votes compared to 41 per cent in January 2013.
Other choices in BJP, Congress
To a question who the best PM candidate in the BJP is, Modi again emerged on the top with 51 per cent people favouring him. Party patriarch L.K. Advani finished a distant second with 18 per cent votes.
The others -- Sushma Swaraj (6 per cent), Shivraj Singh Chouhan (4 per cent) and Arun Jaitley (3 per cent) -- could barely make an impact.
Similarly, Rahul Gandhi was the best choice for the PM candidate in the Congress with 44 per cent respondents wanting him to replace the incumbent, Manmohan Singh, who polled a meagre 15 per cent votes.
The other contenders -- P. Chidambaram (6 per cent), A.K. Antony (5 per cent) and Sheila Dikshit (3 per cent) -- were hardly any choices.
Leaders on the fringes
So who has dented the two leading contenders' popularity? With the talks of proposed Third Front emerging stronger, it is the leaders like Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati, Samajwadi Party (SP) president Mulayam Singh Yadav, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N. Chandrababu Naidu, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his Tamil Nadu counterpart and AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa who seem to be making inroads.
There was a tie between the two of the strongest leaders from Uttar Pradesh -- Mayawati and Mulayam -- when the respondents were asked who should be PM in non-Congress, non-BJP government. Both of them got 7 per cent votes, followed closely by the TDP chief (6 per cent), Nitish (5 per cent) and Jayalalithaa (4 per cent).
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