Sometime late evening on Thursday, an aghast Sadanand Dhume, tweeted out NDTV's opinion poll findings which declared that 52 percent of the people they surveyed in Kerala wanted Rahul Gandhi as their Prime Minister.
Only @NDTV could find a way to stick this headline on a poll that predicts a UPA rout. #India pic.twitter.com/AKh2FPNdwH
— Sadanand Dhume (@dhume) March 27, 2014
Representational image. AFP.
Hansa research, which conducted the survey on behalf of NDTV, however found that BJP and the NDA, is predictably might be leading the seat count and vote share in the upcoming polls. It found that among the urban voters, the BJP/NDA has a distinct edge compared to the Congress and its allies.
Thirty two percent of the urban respondents in the opinion polls said that they prefer a government led by the BJP while 27 percent said that they choose Congress.
While Sonia Gandhi's party did manage to close the gap a bit in the rural voting sector, it still lagged behind by two percent. Twenty six percent respondents preferred Congress while 28 percent wanted BJP or NDA.
In Kerala especially, a Congress stronghold, the party seemed to be on a decline. The survey said compared to its last survey conducted a month ago, the Congress-led UDF is down by three seats while the Left is gaining ground and has gained by three seats. The poll predicts 10 seats of the 20 to the UDF, while the Left has 10 seats too.
In the 2009 polls, the UDF had won 16 seats and the Left just 4.
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