New Delhi: Who is the popular choice for the prime minister's post? Is it Congress President Sonia Gandhi, BJP stalwart Atal Behari Vajpayee, current Prime Minister Manmohan Singh or Amethi MP and Sonia’s son Rahul Gandhi?
In the run-up to the Independence Day, CNN-IBN and Centre for Studies of Developing Societies (CSDS) bring the results an exclusive opinion poll and find answers to a host of political issues in the country.
Conducted by the team that has got every political poll on the dot, CSDS’s Yogendra Yadav and CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai will get you the answers to the followiung questions:
- Which coalition will come to power if elections are held today? The NDA, the UPA or the Left Front?
- How has the current government performed on various fronts. Whether it issues like price rise, the condition of farmers, national security or India's standing in the world.
- Who is the most popular chief minister in the country? Orissa’s Naveen Patnaik, Gujarat’s Narendra Modi, Bihar’s Nitish Kumar or Delhi’s Sheila Dikshit?
This exhaustive poll has been conducted across 19 states with over 14,000 samples covering a large section of rural India.
Find out answers on the State of the Nation poll Saturday, August 12, 2006 at 2130 hrs (IST) only on CNN-IBN.
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