Ahead of Speech, PM Modi’s Approval Rating Remains High: Survey

As of 10 May, 92.8% respondents said that Modi government is doing a good job against COVID-19: CVoter survey

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing the nation at 8 PM on Tuesday 12 May, on the plan ahead regarding tackling the COVID-19 pandemic.

There is a great deal of curiosity on whether he would extend the lockdown that is officially supposed to end on 17 May.

The lockdown was first imposed on 22 March for a nine day period, it was extended to 14 April and then 3 May and then 17 May by the central government.

Modi’s speech comes a day after the centre interacted with chief ministers of different states regarding the road ahead.