India Today – October 08, 2018

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leaders admitthat“internalfactionalismatalllevels

despite attemptstostreamlinethecampaignprocess

is the biggest liability for the party”. Former Congress

chief minister Digvijaya Singh has been deputed to

head the coordination committee whose main task is to

fix the factionalism problem by talking to the 125,000

Congress workers in the state. He has already travelled

to 43 out of the state’s 51 districts and spoken to over

a 100,000 workers. The only districts left are Gwalior,

Morena and six others under Scindia’s influence. “I’m op-

timistic... we’llfightasonepartyandwin,”hesays.

RajasthanprovidesasharpcontrasttoMP.ThePSE

survey shows massive voter anger with the Raje govern-

ment with the mood for change as high as 48 per cent.

The CM’s popularity rating is trailing at 35 per cent,

the same as former Congress CM Ashok Gehlot. Sachin

Pilot, at 11 percent,isthethirdmostpopularcandidate

for CM, and could deal a combined double blow to Raje.

Here again, “factionalism within the party” is the main

reason for Raje’s dwindling popularity, say senior BJP

leaders. A direct result of such internal squabbling was

the recent exit of Jaswant Singh’s son, Manvendra Singh,

who represents the Sheo assembly seat under the Barmer

Lok Sabha constituency.

In Chhattisgarh, CM Raman Singh’s popularity at

41 per cent is 2 percentage points higher than the voters’

satisfaction with his government; 35 per cent want it

NATION |^ ASSEMBLY POLLS |

MADHYA PRADESH RAJASTHAN CHHATTISGARH

WHO SHOULD BE THE NEXT CHIEF MINISTER?

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE STATE

GOVERNMENT’SPERFORMANCE?

Shivraj Singh

Chouhan BJP

Vasundhara Raje

BJP

Raman Singh

BJP

Jyotiraditya

Scindia Congress

Ashok Gehlot

Congress

Bhupesh Baghel

Congress

Kamal Nath

Congress

Sachin Pilot

Congress

Ajit Jogi

JCC

Digvijaya Singh

Congress

Rajyavardhan

Singh Rathore BJP

T.S. Singh Deo

Congress

46

%

35

%

41

%

32

%

35

%

21

%

8

%

11

%

12

%

2

%

3

%

11

%

RAJASTHAN

CHHATTISGARH

MADHYA PRADESH

5 %

13 %

40 %

6 %

39 %

11 %

16 %

(^3241)
48 %
15 %
34 %
Satisfied
Should change
Moderate
No opinion