Kerala, NE top in satisfaction with sitting MPs

New Delhi, January 16 (IANS): Kerala and norteastern states are neck and neck when it comes to satisfaction level with the sitting Lok Sabha MPs, while people in Haryana and Puducherry have registered their satisfaction level in the negative, as per the IANS C-Voter State of the Nation 2021 survey.

According to the survey, in Kerala, 37.31 per cent of the people are satisfied with the sitting Lok Sabha MPs, while 42.87 per cent are satisfied with them to some extent and merely 16.44 per cent are not satisfied at all. The nett level of satisfaction in Kerala is 63.7 per cent. The northeastern states are marginally lagging behind Kerala at 61.3 per cent nett satisfaction with the sitting MPs.

Interestingly, in Himachal Pradesh, 50.7 per cent of the people are satisfied with the sitting MPs, which is the highest in a comparison between states, though it has 25.22 per cent people who are satisfied to some extent and 21.42 per cent people who are not satisfied at all, dragging it down to No. 3 in the overall rankings.

Andhra Pradesh ranks fourth with 45.15 per cent of people very much satisfied with their sitting Lok Sabha MPs.

In the all-India context, 31.52 per cent of the people are very much satisfied with their MPs, while 26.05 per cent are satisfied to some extent. However, 32.99 per cent are not satisfiedat all.

At 45.96 per cent, the people of Gujarat have registered the second highest level of satisfaction with their sitting MPs, followed by Odisha at 41.65 per cent.

In the newly formed Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, 42.27 per cent people are very much satisfied with their sitting MPs, while 27.6 per cent are not satisfied at all, pushing it to 16th in the overall rankings.

The people in Haryana and Puducherry have expressed utter dissatisfaction with their sitting Lok Sabha MPs. As many as 54.25 per cent of the people in Haryana are not at all satisfied with their MPs, which is the highest level of non-satisfaction at an all India level, followed by Puducherry at 46.25 per cent.

Assam at 31.07 per cent and Maharashtra at 31.2 per cent are also neck and neck in terms of people's satisfaction with their sitting MPs. However, 20.07 per cent of people in Assam are not at all satisfied with their sitting MPs, third after Kerala and NE.

In Delhi, 31.14 per cent of the people are very much satisfied with their sitting MPs, while 34.73 per cent are not at all satisfied.

The survey was carried out among over 30,000 respondents across the country in all the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies.