NEW DELHI: With Congress riding high after its successes in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh assembly elections, the big question is how much Rahul Gandhi has gained in popularity nationally to challenge Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha polls .The #TimesMegaPoll asked respondents whether Rahul Gandhi was a more popular leader today compared to 2014. Around 31.15% said Rahul had indeed become more popular since the last Lok Sabha polls. However, 63% felt there was no change in the Congress president’s popularity in the last five years while 6% were undecided.While Narendra Modi remains the most popular choice (83.9%) for Prime Minister if Lok Sabha elections were to be held today, the Congress president, with 8.3% votes, emerged as the second preferred choice for the post. Interestingly, the Congress president was the third most favoured choice for the PM in a similar Times Group online poll last year, in February 2018.On the question of who will form the next government after the 2019 general election, 83% respondents think a Modi-led government is the most likely outcome. About 9.25% of respondents see a Congress-led government coming to power after the next Lok Sabha polls.The poll was conducted online between February 11-20 in 9 languages across 13 media properties of the Times Group. The results were concealed from respondents during the polling to negate any motivated voting. Almost half a million voted for this survey, however, in order to negate any attempt at gaming the result, ONLY logged in users’ votes (over 2 lakh) were counted, ensuring that only one vote per person was counted.