TDP, YSR lead in Andhra, AIADMK ahead in Tamil Nadu: survey

Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has witnessed a slight drop from 17 to 16 percent, as the favoured candidate for the job while his party's vote share too has declined by four percent since January, it said.

Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha is preferred by only eight percent of the voters in Tamil Nadu as the next PM and 45 percent of all AIADMK voters are not enthusiastic about her being named as a PM candidate, it said.

The decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh and create a separate state of Telangana seems to have benefitted Congress which is getting the maximum vote share in the region at 32 percent. However, majority of the respondents (30 percent) give the credit to the TRS which may get 26 percent votes, the survey said.

While in Seemandhra region, the YSR Congress is projected to secure 45 percent vote share followed by TDP (33 percent) and Congress (16 percent).

A total of 46 percent Telangana respondents said Congress handled the division of state well; a jump of 15 percent since January, it said.