Hyderabad: In spite of hiring the services of the best of propaganda agencies, the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears to be dipping. One glaring example is Begusarai in Bihar from where Kanhaiya Kumar is contesting the Lok Sabha polls.
The polling in Begusarai was over in the evening of April 28 and now the boxes are sealed until they are opened for counting towards May end. But let us throw a glance at how a political novice Kanhaiya Kumar faired against a propaganda expert Prime Minister Modi during the campaign.
Siasat.com checked out 18 YouTube coverage between April 2 and April 27 to find out how the two faired. Amazingly, Kanhaiya Kumar has beaten Prime Minister Modi hands down.
Zee News on April 17 gave coverage to a question on protest against Kanhaiya Kumar in Bihar means for Left Wing politics in India. It garnered 3.78 lakhs viewers. The news was obviously meant to show the negative side of Kanhaiya Kumar in the poll campaign. On the same day, The Quint carried a story of PM Modi’s public rally in Bhubaneswar where ‘hundreds of empty chairs’ stared at the organizers. The news was viewed by only 96,783 persons.
ABP News has covered Prime Minister Modi’s ‘Mega Roadshow’ in Varanasi, the constituency from where he had won the 2014 election. Surprisingly, on April 25, where only 56,614 people watched the roadshow on the channel giving jitters to the organizers. The same news channel carried a story on Kanhaiya Kumar’s “Mobile Torch Rally” on April 27 which garnered 80,320 viewers.
The much-anticipated interview of Prime Minister Modi to Aaj Tak on April 26 turned out to be a major success. It was seen by 7,75,850 persons. On the other hand, Kanhaiya Kumar spoke with NDTV’s Ravish Kumar during his campaign trail on April 11. It turned out to be a bigger hit. The viewership of that program crossed 11,01,847.
What do these comparisons speak? In a way, they show a decline in the popularity of Prime Minister Modi and at the same time show Kanhaiya Kumar’s meteoric rise.
Note: Views mentioned here are at the time of creating article