ABP-CVoter Snap Poll: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has once again raised the issue of safety of minorities in the country saying that the religious and ethnic minorities in the country are under attack in the current National Democratic Alliance-ruled government at the Centre. Addressing a public meeting in Ladakh’s Kargil on Friday, the Congress MP said Muslims are “under attack” in the country and so are the people of Manipur and people belonging to the Dalit community. His remark came as a response to a question by a youth on what will the Congress do to improve the situation of Muslims in the country if elected to power in 2024.
To gauge the opinions of voters on the issue, ABP News and CVoter conducted a snap poll to know what do the supporters of ruling NDA and the Opposition think about it.
Responding to the snap poll, a total of 31.5 per cent respondents “totally agree” that “the conditions of minorities in the country is not so good” while 15.7 per cent agree to some extent with the statement given by Rahul Gandhi.
A whopping 43.2 per cent of voters “do not agree at all'' that the situation of minorities is not good in the country while 9.6 per cent were not sure about the statement.
Out of those who totally agree with the statement, 40.1 per cent support the Opposition while 18.7 per cent are NDA supporters.
15.3 per cent of Opposition supporters agree to some extent that the condition of minorities is not good in the country which was resonated but 16.3 per cent supporters of the NDA.
While 33.5 per cent respondents from the Opposition's side of supporters did not agree at all with Rahul Gandhi’s statement, it was 57.7 per cent of NDA supporters who strongly believe that Rahul Gandhi’s statement regarding the condition of minorities in the country was not correct.
11.1 per cent respondents who support the Opposition could not say anything on Rahul Gandhi’s statement and 7.3 per cent of respondents who support NDA were also not on either side.
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The Opposition has been targeting the Bharatiya Janata Party government on the issue of minorities in the country. It created a ruckus in the Parliament in the recently-concluded Monsoon Session asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue of Manipur which has been in the grip of ethnic violence for nearly four months now.
The Opposition also cornered the government on Nuh violence, the incident of an RPF constable shooting four people in a train including his senior and Muslim passengers, harassment of a Dalit man in Madhya Pradesh.
[Disclaimer: Current survey findings and projections are based on CVoter personal interviews conducted among 4097 adults. Sometimes the table figures do not sum to 100 due to the effects of rounding. MoE is +/- 3% at macro level and +/- 5% at micro level.]