India Today CVoter Mood of the Nation poll: Narendra Modi's popularity is waning, but he remains the best choice for PM

The popularity of the campaign committee chief of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for 2014 Lok Sabha polls -- Narendra Modi -- is on the downhill, the finding of India Today-CVoter Mood of the Nation opinion poll suggests.

The latest study, based on a national representative sample of 15,815 randomly selected respondents across 28 states between August 2 and 10, comes as a setback to the Gujarat chief minister, who has been banking on his popularity to emerge as the BJP's prime ministerial candidate.

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The opinion poll shows that Modi is preferred by only 45 per cent people as the future prime minister as compared to 57 per cent in the previous survey, held in January this year.

He, however, continues to be the most popular face among those in the prime ministerial race with Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi finishing again next to him. Like Modi, the Gandhi scion's popularity has also been waning as he polled 32 per cent votes compared to 41 per cent in January 2013.

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