ABP News-CVoter Survey: Almost 50% respondents feel BJP using Ram Mandir issue as political stunt

The ABP News-C Voter poll survey which was carried out PAN India to gauge the mood of the voters ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections asked the respondents whether the BJP was really serious about the construction of a Ram Mandir or was it just a political gimmick being used by the party.

The battle for the Game of Thrones for forming the next government at the Centre has escalated as the 2019 elections are just a couple of months away. Political parties are in full preparation mode to unleash their full campaign machinery with the ultimate mission of winning the nation's biggest political battle. One of the most debatable topics which has been making rounds in the political circles and has hogged the limelight in recent times is the Ram Mandir Construction at Ayodhya. Both the BJP and the Congress have been engaged in a heated debate over the sensitive matter where the decision on the title suit of the Temple has been pending for six decades in the courts of law.

ABP News-C Voter survey: The ABP News-C Voter poll survey which was carried out PAN India to gauge the mood of the voters ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections asked the respondents whether the BJP was really serious about the construction of a Ram Mandir or was it just a political gimmick being used by the party.

Here are the results of the Survey 

• Don't Know / Can't Say - 11.6%
• Yes, BJP is really serious to get the Ram Mandir constructed - 39.1%
• No, the BJP is only using this issue as an election gimmick - 49.3%

The results of the survey reflects that almost 50% of the respondents feel that the BJP is not serious about construction of the Ram Mandir and is just using it as a political stunt to evoke the sentiments of the Hindus. This is a worry some sign for the core party loyalists who are ideological inclined. 

The survey also asked the respondents if the Ram Temple construction does not get resolved in the court and the govt does not pass a law, will they still vote for the BJP

• Don't Know / Can't Say -  9%
• Yes, I will vote for the BJP for other reasons -  50.4%
• No, I will not vote for the BJP if it does not make the law - 15.6%
• No, I will never vote for the BJP - 25%

In case of an unfavourable Ram Mandir judgement by Supreme Court and further inability of BJP to push a legislative solution, the respondents had diverse response. The survey indicates that the solution to the Ram Mandir may not bring incremental voters to the BJP but a non-solution may take away some of its core voters

 

Ram Temple Issue Background :  

The BJP who had the Ram temple construction as one of the key agenda's in their 2014 election manifesto has been targeted repeatedly by their 'pro Hindutva' allies like the RSS and Shiv Sena for not delivering its promise to the Hindu community. The opposition parties have also stepped up their salvo on the BJP saying that the saffron party uses the Ram Mandir agenda only as a tool to arouse the sentiments of the Hindus during the elections. As the 2019 elections draw near, the BJP and PM Modi has been facing flak from its core voter base as to why did they not take up the issue of the Ram Temple construction earlier during their 5 year regime.

A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, heard the Ayodhya temple-mosque case on January 9. It was expected to take a call on the frequency of hearings in the case. The hearing got adjourned after Judge UU Lalit left the hearing saying he was a lawyer in a related case earlier. The four other judges on the Constitution Bench were Justice SA Bobde, Justice NV Ramana, Justice UU Lalit and Justice DY Chandrachud.The matter is still  sub judice in the Supreme Court and the next hearing in the case shall be held on January 29

The CVoter Tracker is carried out each and every week, 52 waves in a calendar year, in 11 national languages, across all States in UTs in India. All our polls are based on a random probability sample as used in the globally standardized methodology, carried out by trained researchers across all geographic and demographic segments. This survey is based on CATI interviews of adult (18+) respondents across all segments. The data is weighted to known census profile

 

The Release Date of the survey was  24th January 2019. The survey was carried out from 3rd Week December 2018 to 3rd Week January 2018 on  a sample Size of 22309 The sample spread entailed  all 543 Lok Sabha seats across all the states

 

MoE: +/- 3% at macro level and +/- 5% at micro level @ Confidence interval: 95%