In a mega Times Group online poll, Prime Minister Narendra Modi scored high with over two-thirds 83 per cent of the over 2 Lakh respondents who took the survey saying a Modi-led NDA government was the most-likely possibility after the polls. The poll also indicates that the PM's personal popularity remains high. With general elections just around the corner, 84 per cent respondents said they would prefer Narendra Modi as PM candidate if general elections were held.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi is a distant second as the most-preferred choice for PM among online voters, with 8.33 per cent voting for him, followed by 1.44 per cent for Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, 0.43 per cent for BSP supremo Mayawati and 5.9 per cent voters predicting another political leader as the next PM. However, when asked if they considered Gandhi more popular compared to 2014, as many as 31 per cent responded in the affirmative, while 63 per cent felt the opposite.
Particularly, only 3.47 per cent respondent see a non-NDA, non-UPA mahagathbandhan government as a likely scenario after the Lok Sabha poll. The poll was conducted online between February 11 and 20 in 9 languages across 13 media properties of the Times Group. The results were concealed from respondents during the 9 days of online polling to negate motivated voting. Almost half a million voted for this survey, however, in order to negate any attempt at gaming the result,votes of only logged in users were counted.
When asked to rate five years of the Modi government, over two-thirds of respondents rated its track record as good or very good. Out of this, 'very good' accounted for 59.51 per cent and 'good' for 22.29 per cent. Around 8.25 per cent termed it as average, while 9.9 per cent found it to be poor. The online survey asked respondents to rate the biggest successes as well as failures of the Modi government.
