NEW DELHI: The three-phase Bihar assembly polls will be the first large-scale election in the country amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, and as per the IANS C-Voter Bihar opinion poll survey, 30.9% of the people are still backing Nitish Kumar as the most preferable candidate to be the chief minister again.
Nitish Kumar is followed by
Rashtriya Janta Dal
leader Tejashwi Yadav, who is the preferred CM candidate of 15.4% people, followed by BJP leader Sushil Modi (9.2%).
Surprisingly, RJD supremo and ex-Bihar CM Lalu Prasad, who is convicted in the fodder scam and is barred from contesting the polls, is considered the most preferable candidate to be CM by 8.3% of the voters.
Lok Janshakti Party
leader
Ram Vilas Paswan has been preferred as a CM candidate by 6.5% of the people.
Congress leader Tariq Anwar has received 2.1% approval, the lowest among prominent leaders in the state. The sample size of the survey is 25,789 and the period of the survey is September 1 to September 25. The survey’s margin of error is +/- 3% at state level and +/-5% at regional level.