PM Modi's popularity remained intact as 43.7 percent voters in the upcoming poll-bound states see him as the first choice candidate for the post of the prime minister as per a survey conducted by ABP-CVoter-IANS.
The 5 states including Manipur, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Goa will go for the assembly elections early in 2022.
57.5 percent voters in Manipur and 50.1 percent in Uttarakhand chose Modi as the best PM candidate followed by Uttar Pradesh with 44.4 percent. In Goa 36.1 voters chose Modi as the first choice candidate whereas Punjab at 14.3 percent is the state with least no. of voters who wants Modi as the PM.
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The other candidates in the survey for the post of the prime minister included congress leader Rahul Gandhi, UP CM Yogi Adityanath, Delhi CM and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal.
After Narendra Modi, 9.6 per cent of the voters in all the five states have gone for Rahul Gandhi, 5.2 per cent with Arvind Kejriwal, 3.1 per cent with Manmohan Singh and 2.6 per cent with Yogi Adityanath.
A total of 19.3 per cent of the voters in Goa, 15.3 per cent in Manipur, 9.4 per cent in Uttar Pradesh, 6.3 per cent in Uttarakhand and 2.1 per cent in Punjab see Rahul Gandhi as the best PM candidate.
Meanwhile, 10.5 per cent voters in Punjab, 9.1 per cent in Manipur, 5.2 per cent in Uttarakhand, 3.1 per cent in Goa and none in Uttar Pradesh have gone with former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been backed by 26.3 per cent respondents in Punjab, 15.1 per cent in Uttarakhand, 5.7 per cent in Goa, 3.3 per cent in Manipur, and 2.3 per cent in Uttar Pradesh.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has been chosen by only 7.2 per cent voters in Uttarakhand, 5.2 per cent in Uttar Pradesh, 2.4 per cent in Manipur, 0.7 per cent in Punjab and none in Goa.
The five-state snap poll was conducted with a sample size of 1,07,193 across 690 seats with a margin of error of +/- 3 per cent to +/- 5 per cent.
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