Senior BJP leader Arjun Munda tops the choice of people of the state according to ABP News-Nielsen's latest opinion poll. The survey says that 35 per cent of people want Munda the three-time CM of the State to take the helm again.
According to the opinion poll all top three contenders for the post of CM in the State are from the BJP. While Munda got 35 per cent votes for CM's post former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha got 22 per cent and party's national vice-president Raghubar Das got 10 per cent votes.
Interestingly, incumbent Hemant Soren is preferred by just eight per cent people in the opinion poll. The BJP is contesting the Assembly election as National Democratic Alliance (NDA) with the AJSU and the lJP as its partners and according to the survey the BJP-led NDA combine may win 37 seats out of the 81 seats.
For the CM's post Munda is preferred by 11.3 per cent among tribals in India TV-CVoter poll, while in the News Nation survey he gets 11 per cent preferential votes.