00:00Who is the most popular chief minister across India? Remember, across India.
00:04So this is all the 2 lakh plus voters in this survey.
00:08Yogi Adityanath comes at 36%. In MOT in February, he was at 35.
00:13He's now moved up by a percent to 36.
00:16Mamata Banerjee has moved from 11% to 13%. She comes second.
00:20Chandra Babu Naidu, 5% to 7%.
00:22But remember, as Yashwant will also point out, this is more about national level recognition in a way.
00:28Who are recognized outside their home state.
00:31These are our top 3.
00:32Yogi Adityanath, Mamata Banerjee and Chandra Babu Naidu.
00:37Most popular CM across India. You could possibly say most visible CM across India.
00:42Who is the most popular chief minister in their home state?
00:45So these are voters from the specific state that an individual belongs to.
00:50Year number 1 is Hemantab Iswas Sarmayan Assam.
00:53He was 55% in MOT in February.
00:55He's now down to 45%.
00:57Remember, Assam goes to the polls early next year.
01:00So there'll be mixed feelings.
01:02The numbers are going down, but he still remains relatively popular.
01:05Vishnudev Sai became chief minister in Chhattisgarh two years ago.
01:09He's gone up from 39% to 42%.
01:11And Hemant Soren, who got elected just about 9 months ago in Jarkhand,
01:16goes up from 31% last time to 42%.
01:19So these are in their home states among their home voters.
01:25Yashwan, this question gets us into trouble.
01:27I think we're going to have to be very careful.
01:30All these other chief ministers will call Preeti up and ask her,
01:33why is our, we are not going to do a podcast with you because you are not in the top three.
01:38I mean, how seriously, is it more of a popularity contest?
01:43No, I would take the second one more seriously than the first one.
01:47Because the fact is that, you know, the bigger states where the population size is bigger
01:52will always get larger number of people saying that CM is more popular.
01:57Even in that way, I would say that Chandra Babu, Naidu, his name is, you know,
02:02punching way above the, you know, in that way because Andhra Pradesh is divided
02:07and the size of population.
02:10So that's right.
02:11So Yogi probably is more popular outside his home state than in his own state.
02:15But it ties in, yes, that's a funny thing.
02:17But, but Yashwan, why it ties in perfectly is that why he's so popular outside.
02:22Look at the polling figures of he had who should be the next prime minister.
02:26Top two.
02:27And among the BJP supporters, outside UPP, BJP supporters take his name.
02:33So Yogi Adityanath is preferred outside, but I'd be worried that he doesn't find himself.
02:36Two names stand out here.
02:37Number one is Chandra Babu Naidu because he is, his image outside Andhra Pradesh
02:43is of somebody who is doing development.
02:46And he remains the original development mandate person in India.
02:49And the second one, when, when we are looking at the, inside the home state thingy, I mean,
02:55of course, in a polarized society of Assam, Imanta Biswasarma scores.
03:00That is right.
03:00His numbers have kind of gone down.
03:02But I would point out Himant Soran, because the way he has not only contested and won Jharkhand,
03:12but taken his father's legacy much beyond what Shibu Soran, very convincingly,
03:18way beyond what Shibu Soran's highest popularity rating was.
03:22That is commendable.
03:23So two people, Chandra Babu Naidu and Hemant Soran, that would be, they might make on this one.
03:29Two BJP chief ministers here.
03:30Yes.
03:32Himanta Biswasarma is the second most popular leader among the BJP leaders,
03:38who is invited from his own state to campaign in other states.
03:41That's the case.
03:42But he is not coming in the top five or top three.
03:45So that essentially means that his popularity may be just perceived popularity,
03:49and it's limited to his state.
03:50When there is a sharp decline, Rajdeep, that's also, it's coming, you know, almost like seven, eight months.
03:58Yeah, seven, eight months to go before an election.
03:59And what is changing on the ground is something that the BJP has to think about.
04:06There is something changing in Assam for a chief minister to witness that kind of a sharp decline of almost 10%.
04:11But it doesn't reflect in our numbers for Assam, Maria.
04:14We don't know.
04:15Because our numbers for Assam seem to suggest that it is, you know, is very strong.
04:18The BJP is still party number one.
04:19Okay, I just have a slight googly question to my friend Sardar R.P. Singh,
04:24who I promised to give dal tadka, yellow dal tadka when he comes next to see me.
04:30Sardar R.P. Singh, Yogi Adityanath,
04:32is he, in your view, the logical successor to Prime Minister Modi?
04:39Or am I asking a question which no one wants to even answer or even ask the question at the moment?
04:44Modi ji to retire in 75, so why should I be asking?
04:48Well, first, thank you for the invitation.
04:54I look forward for a formal invitation when I can come and have pili dal and probably have a better appetite
05:00so that it can help me to do better debates with you.
05:03But coming to the subject, there is no slot which is vacant still for the Prime Minister.
05:11Prime Minister is going to, Modi is going to stay the Prime Minister for the 2029 election and they have to see after that.
05:17But one point which we missed, everyone is raising question, can I, can I, when I, when we were talking about the,
05:28when we were talking about the SIR in Bihar, Mr. Abhishek Munib Singh on record in 2018 said 70 lakh voters are fake voters
05:36or fabricate voters or nakli vote in Chalangana.
05:40And in 2023, 21 lakhs vote were deleted.
05:45But no one does questions.
05:47Mr. Vincendi was appreciating the election commission for doing so because it was GRS versus Congress at that time.
05:53So this is as per suitability and then now specifically since they don't have narrative in Bihar,
05:58they are trying to build up a narrative around this vote theory.
06:01I take a question.
06:02And I'm sorry, directly or directly, you are supporting that.
06:06Okay, no, no, no one is supporting them.
06:08But I just want to ask Sanjay Jha, you see, what is interesting in all this list, I don't see a single Congress Chief Minister.
06:14Now, one of the problems that the Congress seems to have is where is the state model?
06:19Modi built himself for Prime Ministership by creating Gujarat model or at least propagating a Gujarat model.
06:26You can agree with it, disagree with it, be a fierce critic, but it was at least a subject of national debate.
06:31I don't see a single Congress Chief Minister in this popularity list in the top three.
06:36Should that not be troubling?
06:38Where is that Congress model, that model Congress Chief Minister?
06:42You know, Razdeep, I have actually done a fairly dipstick audit of what the Congress said in the manifesto and what they have developed.
06:50And I can tell you that all the states where the Congress made its manifesto commitments,
06:55I think it has delivered much better than the BJP has.
06:58But to answer your question, I think the Congress definitely needs to be looking at marketability more aggressively.
07:04But one thing that R.P.N. Singh cannot deny, because he's ended up making a comment on the Bihar election,
07:10that Vot Chor Gaddi Chhor is the zeitgeist of our time.
07:13I take some objection, my name is being taken wrongly.
07:14R.P. Singh, R.P. Singh, sir.
07:16Vot Chor Gaddi Chhor is the zeitgeist of our time.
07:17Sorry, sorry, R.P. Singh, sir, R.P. Singh is someone else, but go ahead.
07:21Yes, finish off, Sanjay, go quickly.
07:23I'm just going to tell Mr. R.P. Singh that Vot Chor Gaddi Chhor is a shibboleth of our times.
07:29You cannot ignore it anymore.
07:31It has caught the public imagination across the country.
07:34Okay.
07:35I'm just going to tell you that Vot Chor Gaddi Chhor is a shibboleth of our times.
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