It’s Rahul vs Modi now If Rahul Gandhi is clearly the Congress Party’s next candidate for PM’s position, Narendra Modi is the strongest leader in BJP’s fold, at least in public perception, to challenge him. When LensOnNews matched up the three, Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi, one-for-one, the results are clear and unambiguous.
Rahul Gandhi is the preferred choice of 47% of the respondents when matched against Manmohan Singh who is the choice of just 31%. However, when matched up against Narendra Modi, Rahul falls behind with just 35% indicating their preference for him, as against 51% who prefer Modi.
Narendra Modi comes out a clear winner when matched up against Manmohan Singh too, 52% to 32%. Congress Party’s managers clearly are aware of what they are up against, as whatever the issue they go for the BJP’s jugular in knee-jerk fashion, particularly targeting Narendra Modi whenever they can.
This LenOnNews poll was carried out among a sample of around 1000 voters in five metropolitan cities (Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore) between August 1 to 6. The findings are subject to a margin of error of 4%.
Even though the present poll is confined to five metropolitan cities, it is interesting that the findings are not significantly different from the ‘Mood of the Nation’ poll we published on June 19 (here), which polled a sample of 3800 registered voters in 40 parliamentary const
How much Black money did Rediff get to write this shameless piece in India?
Rediff wrote: "This shows that the Gandhis and Congress party is giving a thumbs-up to PM Singh's 'cricket diplomacy' and his endeavour to stabilise relationship with Pakistan."
What does a family's approval matter in a 'democratic nation? Are you all so fooolish to put this up ? Which century is India really in now?
