That is, 61% of those voted believed the BJP would perform better than it did in 2014. And some 23% of respondents believed the BJP would fare the same as it did in 2014.Even of respondents on the Bengali eisamay.com - many of whom one would expect are either Trinamool or CPM supporters - a whopping 74% believed the BJP would be re-elected if the Lok Sabha polls were held today.The only dissenters here were tamil.samayam.com's respondents and to a lesser extent telegu.samayam.com's respondents.Close to 44% respondents in the tamil.samayam.com survey believed the Modi government would fare worse than it did in 2014, if Lok Sabha elections were to be held today. Almost 42% of telegu.samayam.com's survey respondents believed the same.Other than these two anomalies, a snap poll is the BJP's to win.So what was it that swung so many respondents toward believing the BJP will score big? And despite the fact that the groundwork for the passage of the GST Bill was laid by the previous UPA government, it was the Modi government that was seen as instrumental in making it a reality.Demonetization got a huge thumbs up among those surveyed by navbharattimes.com, maharashtratimes.com, iamgujarat.com and vijaykarnataka.com. In these surveys, more than 50% of respondents said the note ban was the most important move by the Modi government.The other three decisions to choose from were the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, the surgical strikes in Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir and the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.Over a million readers participated in these polls.

Source: Times of India May 23, 2017 14:40 UTC