Shinde-led Mahayuti government perceived as high on corruption, not bad on performance

For the past two and a half years, Maharashtra has been ruled by the Mahayuti government, with Eknath Shinde as the Chief Minister. The State holds very high political value for the BJP’s national leadership. The pre-poll survey posed a few questions to assess voters’s perceptions of the performance of the incumbent government on various parameters. The majority of respondents seem to be neither fully satisfied nor fully dissatisfied with these parameters, while overall maintaining an approval rating for the government’s performance.

Among all areas of performance, it is only in the condition of roads and bridges that a greater number of respondents acknowledged improvement over the past five years compared with those who did not notice any change. In all other areas, a greater number of respondents said that the condition either remained the same or worsened (Table 1). These areas ranged from law and order to women’s safety, as well as traffic situation, floods, and drinking water supply.

The combined percentage of respondents who felt that things had not improved or had worsened was far greater than those who believed improvements had been made. At the same time, the percentage of respondents who experienced worsening conditions was slightly less than those who experienced improvement.