BJP Expected To Better Face India's Challenges: U.S. Survey

WASHINGTON: A survey by a leading U.S. think tank has found that Indians expect the Bharatiya Janata Party to do a better job in facing the various challenges faced by India.

The survey by Pew Research Centre also suggests that BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is more popular than Congress vice-president and putative prime ministerial candidate Rahul Gandhi.

Indians by a margin of more than three-to-one, would prefer the BJP to lead the next Indian government rather than the Congress, according to the poll.

Seven-in-ten Indians are dissatisfied with the way things are going in India today.

And by a margin of better than two-to-one, the public, according to the poll, says the BJP would do a better job on each of a half dozen challenges facing the nation -- from combating corruption to fighting terrorism.

The Pew survey results are based on face-to-face interviews with 2,464 randomly selected adults across India between Dec 7 and Jan 12. The margin of error is 3.8 percent.

Dissatisfaction with recent developments in India is remarkably widespread among both BJP supporters and Congress backers; among young and old; among rich and poor; and among city dwellers and rural residents, the survey says.

But views of the major parties vary across the country, with support for a BJP-led government strongest in the north of India.
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