The India Today Mood of the Nation (MOTN) poll in January 2020 adjudged Uttar Pradesh's Yogi Adityanath as the best performing chief minister for the second time in a row. What makes the feat all the more striking is that Adityanath is the only BJP face among the top seven chief ministers in the survey.

With 18 per cent votes, 47-year-old Adityanath is way ahead of joint runners-up Arvind Kejriwal (Delhi) and Mamata Banerjee (West Bengal), who secured 11 per cent votes each. Bihar's Nitish Kumar was a close third (10 per cent).

In the nearly three years that he has been chief minister, Adityanath has managed to project himself as a man of action, who follows a hard line on crime, is not afraid to take tough decisions and is someone who has a clean image. Under him, UP has been gradually establishing itself as an attractive investment destination. The 2020 edition of the DefExpo India exhibition will be held for the first time in Lucknow, from February 5 to 8.

Methodology

All interviews were conducted face-to-face using a standard structured interview questionnaire, which was translated into regional languages.



A total of 12,141 interviews were conducted (67 per cent rural and 33 per cent urban, and an almost equal number of females and males), spread across 97 parliamentary constituencies in 194 assembly constituencies in 19 states.



In each of the assembly constituencies, different starting points were selected, covering all the five zones of an assembly constituency: north, south, east, west and the center.