New Delhi: Narendra Modi continues to be the popular choice to be the next Prime Minister across a wide section of society, but the gap between him and Rahul Gandhi is thinnest among housewives.
An overwhelming 63.6 per cent of unemployed respondents in the latest CVOTER-IANS poll tracker survey preferred Narendra Modi as the next Prime Minister. In the same category, only 26 per cent made Rahul Gandhi as their choice.
But among housewives, 43.3 per cent said they would like to see Modi as the PM against 37.2 per cent of home makers preferring Rahul Gandhi. The difference between the two leaders is narrowest among housewives.
For Modi, his popularity is also lowest among housewives compared to other sections. Government servants gave big thumbs up to Modi with 61.1 percent respondents in this section preferring him to be the PM and only 26 percent saw Rahul Gandhi taking up the top job.
Apart from housewives, landless agriculture labour and general labour are the sections where Rahul Gandhi's popularity is high but he is still no match to Modi here as well.
Among the voters from landless agricultural labour section, 35.4 percent preferred Rahul Gandhi and 48.2 saw Modi as their leader.
Around 35 per cent of general labour saw Rahul Gandhi as PM as against 48.9 percent going for Modi.
Voters optimistic about India
Majority of voters across social barriers feel that India is moving forward and their lives too, most are optimistic about the future as they believe their living standards will improve in the next one year.
According to the survey, 73.2 per cent of government servants, 65 per cent of the unemployed and 63.3 per cent of self employed among the respondents felt satisfied with the situation in the country.
When asked if they expected living standard to go up in the next 12 months, 63 per cent of unemployed, 45.9 per cent of housewives, 61.5 per cent of those involved with fishery, 65.2 per cent of government servants said "yes".
Those with negative outlook was less across the same sections.
Only 4.3 per cent of unemployed, 7.9 per cent of housewives, 5.7 per cent of land owning farmers said that could not say much about today's India.
The number of respondents who said that their living standard would deteriorate over the next one year was around 10 per cent or less across various categories.
Those who said that both the country and their lives were in poor state remained less than 20 per cent across all sections.
