48% want PM Modi to return to power in 2019, 11% pick Rahul Gandhi: I-PAC Survey

The leaders who are planning a grand alliance against Prime Minister Narendra Modi are lagging far behind in this survey.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. PTI Photo

New Delhi: With less than a year to go for 2019 Lok Sabha elections, several surveys and opinion polls are  being conducted to find out the mood of the voters; Noted election strategist and one of the main contributors in Bharatiya Janta Party’s victory in 2014 elections, Prashant Kishore’s organization I-PAC, has organised an online survey whose results are in favour of the ruling government. In the survey performed by Indian Political Action Committee, PM Narendra Modi is seen far ahead of other leaders of the country. 48% respondents picked PM Modi as the leader who they feel would take the country ahead, whereas Congress President Rahul Gandhi has bagged mere 11 percent of the votes. Comparing the ratio between the two, Modi is leading the Congress president by a massive 400% . The rest of the leaders who are opposing Modi have bagged 3, 4 and 5 percent in the survey. The result of the survey has given another chance to Bharatiya Janta Party to take on Congress. How are other leaders placed against Modi? The leaders who are planning a grand alliance against Prime Minister Narendra Modi are lagging far behind in this survey. Below are the percentages of choices of the people: PM Modi: 48% Rahul Gandhi: 11% Arvin Kejriwal: 9.3% Akhilesh Yadav: 7% Mamata Banerjee: 4.2% Mayawati: 3.1% BJP responds to I-PAC survey: Responding to the figures mentioned in the survey, BJP leader Nalin Kohli said “If public doesn’t like Rahul Gandhi, then you won’t say that BJP is forcing them to say so. BJP has been winning elections one after another. This is about PM Modi’s followers. If Rahul Gandhi thinks he is loved, then he must prove it in the forthcoming elections”.