It doesn’t really make sense to use the entire population of India as the denominator (which includes children, noncitizens and others not eligible to vote). If we’re looking at percentage of eligible adults: 24.3% voted for him. If we’re looking at vote share (percentage of total votes) it’s 36.6%.
The US based intelligence firm Morning Consult ranks leaders on approval ratings and he is often ranked high with a 65 to 75% approval rating, which plays into the perception of his popularity:
Starmer, Merz and Macron running dead last on that list.
I am not a fan of Modi. He is socially irresponsible in my opinion. But he has some very smart people around him including external affairs minister Dr. Jaishanker and commerce minister Piyush Goyal. India is clearly growing under his leadership. The question is whether it will grow equitably.
Approval rate of modi in morning consult is based on assumption excluding opinions of muslims , Dalits ,adivasi people ,people in kashmir , and mainly south indians . Also 65-75% approval is a blanded lie because it excluded a large section of indias non hindi/Urdu speaking population (especially dravidian language speaking group).
The data for approval is based on data from indian state of Gujarat , uttarpradesh etc which are predominantly modi supporters base.
Modi is in power only because of first past the post system, also dispite having the advantage of first past the post system which primarily helped Modi’s party(Bharatiya Janata party ) , still he failed to get majority in parliament and made an aliance with regional parties like Janata dal United party and Telugu Desam party to win in 2024 election .
That means this 65-75% approval rate is an assumption not the reality.
Non citizens account a small percentage of indian population (less than 1% of total population) ,
Total eligible population for voting is almost 70% if we exclude children , 36.6% vote share actually comes from total number of voters that have voted despite 70% being eligible , that’s why I said in my statement (2).
So what i said is truth , only 16% of population voted for him .
Also look how bad is it for a country which claim itself as democratic have the leader of its country with only just 16% of total population support or 24.3% of eligible voters support
It doesn’t really make sense to use the entire population of India as the denominator (which includes children, noncitizens and others not eligible to vote). If we’re looking at percentage of eligible adults: 24.3% voted for him. If we’re looking at vote share (percentage of total votes) it’s 36.6%.
The US based intelligence firm Morning Consult ranks leaders on approval ratings and he is often ranked high with a 65 to 75% approval rating, which plays into the perception of his popularity:
https://pro.morningconsult.com/trackers/global-leader-approval
Starmer, Merz and Macron running dead last on that list.
I am not a fan of Modi. He is socially irresponsible in my opinion. But he has some very smart people around him including external affairs minister Dr. Jaishanker and commerce minister Piyush Goyal. India is clearly growing under his leadership. The question is whether it will grow equitably.
You hit the nail on the head.
Modi is a religious nutcake, and a racist.
BUT! He has the most important skill of any democratic leader: he gets good advisers and (at least some of the time) listens to them
Approval rate of modi in morning consult is based on assumption excluding opinions of muslims , Dalits ,adivasi people ,people in kashmir , and mainly south indians . Also 65-75% approval is a blanded lie because it excluded a large section of indias non hindi/Urdu speaking population (especially dravidian language speaking group). The data for approval is based on data from indian state of Gujarat , uttarpradesh etc which are predominantly modi supporters base.
Modi is in power only because of first past the post system, also dispite having the advantage of first past the post system which primarily helped Modi’s party(Bharatiya Janata party ) , still he failed to get majority in parliament and made an aliance with regional parties like Janata dal United party and Telugu Desam party to win in 2024 election . That means this 65-75% approval rate is an assumption not the reality.
Non citizens account a small percentage of indian population (less than 1% of total population) , Total eligible population for voting is almost 70% if we exclude children , 36.6% vote share actually comes from total number of voters that have voted despite 70% being eligible , that’s why I said in my statement (2).
So what i said is truth , only 16% of population voted for him . Also look how bad is it for a country which claim itself as democratic have the leader of its country with only just 16% of total population support or 24.3% of eligible voters support