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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | A month before polls, what is on the Gujarat voter’s mind? -Sanjay Kumar, Sandeep Shastri, and Suhas Palshikar

A month before polls, what is on the Gujarat voter’s mind? -Sanjay Kumar, Sandeep Shastri, and Suhas Palshikar

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published Published on Oct 31, 2022   modified Modified on Oct 31, 2022

-The Hindu

A recent survey on governance and development in the State brings out the importance of the economic plight of the people

When Narendra Modi entered the national political arena in 2013-14, he was portrayed as the mascot of the Gujarat model of development. Now, nearly a decade later, do memories of that model resonate with the Gujarati voter? As Assembly elections approach, do the voters of Gujarat still take pride in that memory?

Primary concerns

A recent survey of governance and development in the State, conducted by Lokniti-Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), vividly brings out the actual economic plight of the people rather than the mere symbolism of the Gujarat model. Responding to an open-ended question (where answers were not prompted), two-thirds of the voters spontaneously mentioned two issues that they would consider at the time of voting: price rise and unemployment. Between them, price rise was the more commonly listed issue with over half the respondents mentioning it.

Five years ago, when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the Assembly elections, even after Mr. Modi’s departure to Delhi, only one in seven had mentioned price rise as the main issue. In fact, in 2017, the perception of the voters was far more lacking in focus. Today, besides half the voters mentioning price rise and another 15% mentioning unemployment, 6% also mentioned poverty as an issue. This takes the tally of economy-related issues to over seven out of 10 respondents. Thus, there is every likelihood that the ruling party in the State will have a lot of explanation to offer to the voters on the economic situation in the State in the coming election.

While it is not extraordinary for voters to mention unemployment and/or poverty as their main issues, the current concern over price rise far outnumbers similar concerns in some other States that recently went to the polls. This concern is almost uniformly felt among most sections of Gujarati society. Half the urban respondents mentioned the issue and a little over a half of those in rural areas spoke of it.

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The Hindu, 31 October, 2022, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/csds-lokniti-survey-a-month-before-polls-what-is-on-the-gujarat-voters-mind/article66075153.ece?homepage=true


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