As campaigning heats up for the high-voltage West Bengal Assembly polls due in April-May, everyone is speculating that will the ruling TMC continue to be the seat leader in the 294-member Assembly or will they be catapulted to the second spot by the BJP. In order to get the insight, ABP in partnership with CNX conducted a survey to understand the mood of the people in West Bengal.
As per the survey, it has revealed that the Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee is the most favoured chief ministerial candidate while state BJP chief Dilip Ghosh is the front runner candidate for the coveted post among the saffron party leaders.
On being asked that who do the respondents want to see as the next chief minister of the West Bengal, almost 38 per cent of the people had Mamata as their preferred choice ahead of Dilip Ghosh, Saurav Ganguly and Suvendu Kumar.
SURVEY RESULT:
| Mamata Banerjee | 38.00 |
| Dilip Ghosh | 18.68 |
| Saurav Ganguly | 12.72 |
| Suvendu Adhikari | 10.13 |
| Adhir Chowdhury | 05.12 |
| Sujan Chakroborty | 04.12 |
| Abhishek Banerjee | 03.51 |
| Mukul Roy | 02.66 |
| Others | 04.64 |
Meanwhile, the survey points out that approximately 77 per cent of voters in West Bengal want former Indian cricket skipper Sourav Ganguly to join politics. On being asked if the former Indian cricket captain should make an entry into the politics, almost more than 2/3rd of the respondents were in affirmative position.
SURVEY RESULT:
| Yes | 76.53 |
| No | 21.28 |
| Can't say | 02.19 |
The survey also revealed that Mamata Banerjee is facing huge revolt before the assembly polls because of extra preference and power to her nephew Abhishek Banerjee and election strategist Prashant Kishor.
Approximately 80 per cent of the voters in West Bengal are likely to vote for the same party as they voted in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, according to the survey. This means approximately 20 per cent of votes are floating and they can change their mood keeping in mind the candidate, manifesto etc.
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The survey states that TMC, which won 211 seats in the 2016 assembly polls, is likely to face huge anti-incumbency as 42 per cent of voters in the state have decided to vote on the local MLA’s performance.
The survey also finds out that approximately 41 people feel corruption has increased in the last 10 years but corruption is still not the biggest poll issue, which means the Narada and Sharada allegations will not affect the TMC vote bank.