- CMs from more populous states are at a natural advantage. So the Nagaland CM may have the support of 80 percent of the respondents from his state, it would count for much less than even 10 percent support for the UP CM.
Columnist Shivam Vij pointed out the problem with this method in an earlier article, “This ranking is not a reflection of a chief minister’s popularity within their state. A CM could be doing very well in his/her state but could still rank poorly in a nationwide poll where every chief minister is in the race”.
The ABP-CVoter survey is a far more accurate reflection of a CM’s popularity as people decide only for their own CM.
In the CVoter poll, 44.7 percent respondents in UP said they are “very much satisfied” with Adityanath as CM, 22.8 percent said they are somewhat satisfied while 32.1 percent said they are “not at all satisfied”. His net approval stood at 35.4. With the national average for CMs being 42.8, it is clear that Adityanath has below average popularity…