BJD TO LOSE 4% VOTES IN LS POLLS, SAYS SURVEY Wednesday, 22 January 2014 | PNS | BHUBANESWAR | in Bhubaneswar

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BJD TO LOSE 4% VOTES IN LS POLLS, SAYS SURVEY

Wednesday, 22 January 2014 | PNS | BHUBANESWAR | in Bhubaneswar 

The BJD is set to capture power in the State for a straight fourth time, according to a survey conducted by the CSDS for the Lokniti-IBN. 

Of the State’s 21 Lok Sabha seats, the BJD, led by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, is expected to maintain its lead by winning 10-16 seats in this year’s General Elections against 14 it got 14 in the 2009 polls.

The State’s main Opposition Congress is likely to win 3-9 seats and the BJP is projected to win 0-4 seats, according to the survey. The Congress had last time got 6 Lok Sabha seats while the CPI had won one and the BJP failed in all the seats.

The survey says that even though the BJD is expected to get just 33 per cent votes in the Lok Sabha elections. This is 4 per cent less than the party’s 2009 Lok Sabha polls vote share of 37 per cent.

The BJP’s votes are expected to go up to 25 per cent in the LS elections against its share of 17 per cent in 2009.

However, the BJD is likely to sweep the Assembly elections with 49 per cent votes. The Congress is expected to get 28 per cent votes, the BJP 13 per cent and others 1 per cent while 9 per cent of the electorate is still undecided.

Patnaik is more popular than his Government and his popularity rating is 70 per cent and 26 per cent people are not happy with him while the other voters have no opinion, the survey showed.

A total of 35 per cent voters say that the BJD Government should not get another chance while 14 per cent have no opinion.

Another interesting thing, according to the survey, is that dissatisfaction with the UPA Government at the Centre is high with 33 per cent voters being of the opinion that they are satisfied with the UPA Government.

The survey shows that the BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is backed by 33 per cent voters while just 12 per cent back Naveen Patnaik for the PM’s post. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has the backing of 19 per cent and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has just 1 per cent support for the post of PM.

Nearly half of the respondents have heard of the

name of the AAP and one-third of the voters want this party to contest from their Lok Sabha seats. About 12 per cent show interest in voting for the AAP.