By Sidharth Mishra
It is seldom that I concur with enunciations of psephologist-turned-politician Yogendra Yadav. However, his comments on the completion of three years in office of Narendra Modi government deserve a partial consideration. He wrote on twitter, "Public mood of Modi@3. Modi critics must accept: he is popular; Modi bhakts must accept: he is yet to deliver."
In fact, even his pocket organisation Lokniti, under the aegis of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, has in its latest findings failed to pinpoint the reasons for "Narendra Modi being on the roll" despite not having allegedly delivered on his promises. There has to be logic behind the conclusion and Yadav cannot let the expression of opinion hide behind the veil of the word limit set by the micro-blogging site.
To be fair, the Lokniti-CSDS does also mention that among 11,373 randomly sampled voters in 19 states nearly seven in every ten voters (69 per cent) were satisfied with the performance of Modi as Prime Minister. This satisfaction rating was found to be higher than the satisfaction ratings recorded for Modi's predecessor Manmohan Singh at the end of the first two years of the UPA I and II governments. When Lokniti-CSDS had conducted similar nationwide Surveys in 2006 and 2011, satisfaction levels with Singh's performance had been lower at 61 per cent and 56 per cent, respectively.
If the findings about the satisfaction with the performance of the Prime Minister were so high, then why is Yadav questioning on delivery. The answer for that is better given by him.
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