Almost all of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visits to south India, particularly Tamil Nadu, have been marked by slogans of “Modi Go Back” by local groups as well as on social media. If survey data is to be believed, the protests may well represent a broader phenomenon: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s deep unpopularity in the south.
According to data collected by C-Voter from over 60,000 voters in all 543 Lok Sabha seats over the last three months, the dissatisfaction with Modi is the deepest in the southern states and Punjab while his popularity is the highest in Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Goa and Haryana, where 74 percent, 68.3 percent, 66 percent and 65.9 percent voters respectively say that they are satisfied with his performance as prime minister.