{"id":7339,"date":"2019-01-26T14:54:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T09:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oyspa.com\/blog\/?p=7339"},"modified":"2019-01-26T14:57:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T09:27:16","slug":"narendra-modis-popularity-at-all-time-low-amid-concerns-over-unemployment-weakening-farm-economy-says-india-todays-pre-poll-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oyspa.com\/blog\/news\/narendra-modis-popularity-at-all-time-low-amid-concerns-over-unemployment-weakening-farm-economy-says-india-todays-pre-poll-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Narendra Modi’s popularity at all-time low amid concerns over unemployment, weakening farm economy, says India Today’s pre-poll survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Delhi:<\/strong>\u00a0Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s ratings have dropped to their lowest-ever level, but he still leads in popularity before a national election expected in the next few months, an\u00a0India Today<\/em>\u00a0poll showed on Friday.<\/p>\n

Modi is facing discontent over lack of jobs for young people and a weak farm economy, and polls have forecast his ruling alliance will fall short of a majority in the election due by May.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0India Today<\/em>\u00a0poll, which was conducted from 20 December to 8 January, showed his popularity rating at 46 percent. That\u2019s down from 65 percent in January 2017, a little over a month after he announced a nationwide ban of 500- and 1,000-rupee notes.<\/p>\n

Nearly 900 million people will be eligible to vote in the election and surveys to predict how they will vote have often gone wrong.<\/p>\n

Rahul Gandhi, the main challenger to Modi and leader of the opposition Congress party, has seen his ratings rise from a low of 10 percent two years ago to his all-time high of 34 percent, 12 percentage points shy of Modi.<\/p>\n

The poll interviewed 12,166 voters across 97 parliamentary constituencies out of the total 543 constituencies in India.<\/p>\n

In an earlier poll by\u00a0India Today<\/em>, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance was forecast to win 237 seats, down from 336. The Congress alliance was expected to take 166 seats, up from 59 won in the 2014 elections.<\/p>\n

Modi\u2019s popularity began to wane after his sudden move to ban large rupee notes, then imposed tax reforms that hurt small traders and led to several factories closing.<\/p>\n

The aftershocks of the two moves were exacerbated by falling commodity prices, which affected the incomes of a largely agrarian society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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