[OpIndia] Amidst the world battling the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic, pollster Morning Consult released approval ratings for every leader from most major democracies. In those approval ratings, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has bagged the highest approval ratings, ahead of any other world leader. | Intelligent and responsible approach to the pandemic, allowing of a flow of chems to other Democracies, the administration of the lockdown itself are some reasons others may be appreciating this government. Domestically, the PM has cult status now. For example, no private employer/company is allowed in India to cut the salaries of their workers during the lockdown. Everyone is on paid leave. No one has to pay monthly installments, deposit revenues or pending insurance premiums during the lockdown and the banks can't cut services. The police will buy the poor their grocery and deliver it themselves. A lot of small adjustments by citizens themselves have added to the efforts of the government. But the firm hand that made it possible was Modi's. Meanwhile, Goa, the no.1 tourist destination became the first totally COVID19 free state, with all patients fully recovered. |
India has managed to relatively control the Coronavirus pandemic effectively. For its mammoth size and extremely dense population of 1.3 billion people, India has managed to arrest the spread to a large extent, better than many developed countries, due to early imposition of strict lockdown and containment measures. Even after the soar in cases due to the Tablighi Jamaat cases, the lockdown coupled with aggressively finding absconding Tablighi Jamaat members, the country managed to save itself from utter chaos and disaster, had the virus spread to a population this dense. Amidst the world battling the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic, pollster Morning Consult released approval ratings for every leader from most major democracies. In those approval ratings, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has bagged the highest approval rating, ahead of any other world leader.
India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, has the highest popularity among them: As of April 14, his net approval rating is 68, up from 62 at the beginning of the year. Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has the second-highest net approval over that period (36), though it fell slightly from 39 in January. During that same stretch of time, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has seen the largest surge in domestic popularity, with his net approval now up to 26 (from negative 26 on January 1). Morning Consult's data shows that among all ten countries surveyed, Japan's Abe has the lowest rating (at negative 33) and the worst decline in net approval, having fallen from negative 18 at the start of 2020. |