Prime Minister Narendra Modi remains the unbeatable leader that people seem to trust with a whopping 78% of those who were surveyed giving thumbs up to the Modi government’s performance.
The India Today – Karvy Insights Mood of the Nation Poll (MOTN) came out with the findings that 78% of the people surveyed found the performance of Prime Minister Modi to be outstanding or good (48% Good and 30% Outstanding). Only 5 per cent of the respondents found the government’s performance to be poor.
Compared to previous 10 MOTN polls, the satisfaction with PM Modi is at its highest now.
On the government’s handling of the economy, 72% of those surveyed rated “Outstanding” or “Good” (24% – outstanding, 48% – good). 43% of the total respondents said that the Modi government handled the economy much better than the former economist Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
However, these results seemed to have upset Rajdeep Sardesai with him saying on live TV that he finds these numbers “bewildering”.
“I can to a certain extent understand the China numbers, but I find these numbers bewildering. This is an issue that should be hitting and hurting the common man. If 24% say outstanding and 48% say good, that is a total of 72%! Let’s try and make some sense of that!”, a bewildered and disappointed Rajdeep mentioned in disbelief of the survey conducted by his own channel.
He said that while he could agree with the MOTN poll on Modi government’s handling of the recent skirmishes with China he was unwilling to believe the survey results on the government’s handling of the economy.
When he was asking for comments on the survey from Prof. Shamika Ravi, he made a Freudian slip by saying “how can people actually support the Prime Minister when everything seems to be going northwards?” instead of “southwards”.
The India Today – Karvy Insights Mood of The Nation Poll comes at a time when India is dealing with multiple challenges – COVID19, economic crisis and border escalations with China.