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Modi Retains Broad Support in India Despite Criticism, Poll Finds
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Tags: Current Focus, India,
A Pew Research Center poll in September 2016 finds 81 percent of Indians have a favorable opinion of Narendra Modi in 2016, compared to 87 percent in 2015. Even among supporters of the opposition Indian National Congress a majority say they have a favorable opinion of Mr. Modi. The author of the poll, Bruce Stokes, says the opinion of frustration of the Indian elites and media about the Modi administration is not reflected in public opinion. Recently the Modi government passed legislation for a national Goods and Services Tax replacing overlapping state and federal taxes that are seen as holding up growth. Issues the Indian public ranks high are corruption, unemployment and terrorism.
Narendra Modi as candidate to lead the BJP party in India's 2014 general elections
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Narendra Modi is the chief minister of Gujarat state in India, where he has implemented a strategy for developing infrastructure, roads, power plants, and attracting foreign investment in the automobile and other industries. With India's slowing growth and corruption in government he is now the choice of the BJP party to run against the ruling Congress party in the 2014 general election. His slogan is minimum government and maximum governance. He is popular in Gujarat state for running a clean administration and generating a decade of high economic growth in the state with a population of about 60 million.
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