PM Modi's 'magic' still reigns India's middle class: survey

Prime Minister Narendra Modi who'd swept the nation with his popularity in 2014 is still the most popular choice amongst India's middle class, a survey has revealed. 

The ET-TNS survey which sampled persons with annual incomes from Rs 3 lakh - Rs 20 lakh in New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad, revealed that PM Modi continues to be the most popular leader. 

The sampled population gave the Prime Minister a 7.68/10 points. 

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley emerged as the second most popular amid the middle class, with the sampled population giving him a 5.86/10. Rahul Gandhi got a mere 3.61/10 from the middle class.

The answers to a series of questions in the survey reveal that the middle class is happy with the work undertaken by the BJP-led government, with 45% saying they were very satisfied with the economic growth under the current government; 41% surveyed said they were moderately satisfied and only 14% said they were unsatisfied with the economic progress made under the centre.

Talking about PM Modi's signature "acche din", the survey revealed that 58% of the sampled population were hopeful of better days ahead under the current government, 33% said things were likely to continue as they were, and only 8% said that things will get worse here on.

Watch the four-part Zee Business analysis of the full survey here: