"BJP has emerged as a clear winner across the country, (more so in north and west). Majority of young people, in the age group of 18 to 30, favoured the party. While in south, both BJP and Congress were running neck to neck," a survey by AC Nelson-ABP News said.
Majority of people from north (around 42 per cent) were unhappy with the performance of UPA-II and in a setback to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the respondents rated his performance "even below his government's performance", it claimed.
More than 60 per cent have rated Modi's performance as good or very good, he was more popular among the voters from north, younger generation and affluent. 70 per cent respondents in Gujarat rated Modi's performance as very good or good, with a mean score of 4.3, the survey said.
Modi clearly emerged as front runner for the post of Prime Minister, followed by Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and Singh.
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Singh's performance was rated as poor and very poor among the north Indian voters, who rated his performance even below the performance of UPA-II government.
Around 40 per cent of the respondents feel that Singh was responsible for poor economic situation of the country. But surprisingly, in southern states, 45 per cent people held Finance Minister P Chidambaram responsible for it.
Congress may be calling itself as secular but people held both Congress and BJP equally responsible for communalisation of politics.