ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE

YOGI ADITYANATH RETAINS HIS POSITION AS INDIA’S NO. 1 CHIEF MINISTER; KEJRIWAL AND MAMATA FOLLOW

- AMARNATH K . MENON

Perception management is a critical factor in determining the popularity of a chief minis­ter. No one exemplifies this better than Ut­ tar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, who faces an assembly election in barely six months. Once again, he has emerged as In­dia’s best­performing chief minister in the August 2021 Mood of the Nation (MOTN) survey, albeit with a significant decline in popularity—from 25 per cent in the MOTN January 2021 survey to 19 per cent now.