The latest ABP/C-Voter survey released on Friday, 18 October, just days before the Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana on 21 October, has shown high popularity for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the central government in both the states. This trend comes even as majority of the respondents in the two states said they want to change the state government and chief minister "immediately".
To the question of whether they want a different prime minister immediately, a resounding 76.3 percent of the respondents in Haryana and 71.5 percent in Maharashtra said 'No'.
Similarly, to the question of whether they want to change the central government immediately, 72 percent of the respondents in Haryana and 67.2 percent in Maharashtra replied in the negative.