Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is way ahead of his counterparts from other states in popularity and is considered the best chief minister in the country, a latest study has revealed.
According to the Mood of the Nation survey, 39.1 per cent respondents consider Yogi Adityanath as the best performing chief minister in the country while with 16 per cent and 7.3 per cent votes respectively, the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, are the remote second and third choices of people in terms of performance.
The survey was conducted in 30 states.
A private news channel and C Voters have conducted the Mood of the Nation survey to know the public rating of the performances of the state governments. In this survey, people were asked questions regarding the best performing chief minister and the quality of governance in different states of the country.
The survey was conducted for 30 chief ministers of the country, and Yogi Adityanath emerged as the most popular choice in terms of performance with 39.1 per cent people voting in his favour.
According to the survey, while Yogi’s popularity is on the rise because of his work, the popularity of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has declined significantly (6 per cent) as compared to August 2022, when he emerged as the choice of 22 per cent people. Similarly, the popularity of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is rated number three with 7.3 per cent votes, has also dropped by about one per cent as compared to August 2022.
The survey conducted in January 2023 further reveals that the Bharatiya Janata Party and the National Democratic Alliance are likely to win 70 seats in UP with 49.3 per cent votes while the opposition parties including Congress, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party will get 10 seats if Lok Sabha elections are held today in the state. It is worth mentioning here that during the Lok Sabha polls in 2019, NDA won 64 seats in UP whereas SP got five, BSP 10 and Congress only one seat.
The popularity of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who took charge of UP in 2017, is increasing across the country. In the last six years of the Yogi government, a lot of work has been done in the state vis-à-vis infrastructure development, including rail, road and waterway connectivity, uninterrupted power supply as well as law and order.
Today Uttar Pradesh has become the number one state in the country in terms of expressways. UP is the top state in the country in terms of good governance. Apart from this, UP has surprised everyone by becoming the second state in the country in terms of ease of doing business. In this sequence, Yogi Adityanath has drawn the attention of entrepreneurs from across the country towards Uttar Pradesh by bringing 25 industry-friendly policies.
