: Mamata Banerjee stands tall in polarised West Bengal #IndiaNEWS #FOCUS New Delhi, May 21 | The Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee remains immensely

Mamata Banerjee stands tall in polarised West Bengal #IndiaNEWS #FOCUS
New Delhi, May 21 | The Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee remains immensely popular with the voters, as per an IANS-CVoter survey.
At the same time, residents of the state do not seem to have a very high opinion of the opposition, which is represented principally by the BJP.
This was revealed during an exclusive survey conducted by CVoter on behalf of IANS in the four states West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala and the Union Territory of Puducherry, where Assembly elections were held in 2021.
Despite a determined effort by the BJP, which has replaced the Left as the main opposition party in Bengal, Banerjee won a third successive term as Chief Minister last year by fashioning a landslide victory for her party.
According to the survey, 31 per cent of the respondents said that they were very much satisfied with the performance of the state government in the last one year, while 47 per cent said they were somewhat satisfied.
At the same time, more than 22 per cent of those interviewed during the survey said they were not satisfied at all with the performance of the state government.
Similarly, Banerjee scored high in approval ratings as Chief Minister of the state.
During the survey, 39 per cent of the respondents said that they were very much satisfied with the performance of the Chief Minister, while 41 per cent said they were somewhat satisfied with her work.
So, in effect, 80 per cent of those interviewed were happy with the work of the Chief Minister, while only 20 per cent of the respondents expressed dissatisfaction with Banerjees performance.
In the 2021 Assembly elections, the BJP had won about 39 per cent of the total votes polled. But there is no good news for the party in the survey.
As per the survey, while 43 per cent of the respondents said they were not satisfied at all with the performance of the opposition, just about 16 per cent said they were very satisfied. This shows massive dissatisfaction with the way BJP has functioned after becoming the principal opposition party in West Bengal.
The fact is that an overwhelming majority, including BJP voters, rated the oppositions performance as poor or extremely poor. The BJP leadership was severely criticised for being literally non-existent on the ground when the post-election violence gripped West Bengal last year. It has been evident in the local body polls which the Trinamool swept, and also in the bypolls which the ruling party won hands down.
The cause of concern for Trinamool is not in terms of non-existent opposition, but the poor performance of sitting MPs and MLAs who did not fare very well in public perception.

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