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India Today issue dt Sept 27, 1999
Sept 27, 1999

Elections 99

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YOUTH POLL
Who is the best political leader in the country?
A.B. Vajpayee 52
Sonia Gandhi 23
Mamata Banerjee 4
Jyoti Basu 3
Sharad Pawar 3
Jayalalitha 2
Laloo Yadav 2

                                         All figures in per cent

Quite to expectation, responses to this question mirror those on the best party. As opinion polls of the entire electorate have also suggested, Vajpayee's popularity outstrips his party's while Sonia is deemed less acceptable than her party. Though the figures are almost uniform across gender and rural-urban divides, the two-horse race speaks for the poverty of political leadership in India. There is a vacuum below.

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