Arecent survey called "Voter State of the Nation 2021 survey" has rated Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik as "the best performing Chief Minister" of India, closely followed by his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy in the second and third spots respectively. The survey report has also said that Patnaik, who is one of the longest serving Chief Ministers in India, is ranked No. 1 in the country with 78.81% of the people endorsing him in Odisha. BJP-ruled Uttarakhand's Trivendra Singh Rawat is the least performing Chief Minister in the country with only 0.41% of the people in the state approving him. The details of the report, which is available in the IANS website has however placed Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal at the No 11 rank, with 34.93 per cent saying they were "Very much satisfied" with him, and 30.66 per cent saying they were "Satisfied to some extent." It has also said that 22.18 per cent of the respondents of the survey were "Not at all satisfied" with Sarbananda Sonowal. As high as 43.41 per cent on the other hand have endorsed him in the "Net satisfied" rating, the report has said. Besides the Odisha, Delhi and Andhra Pradesh Chief Ministers, the other Chief Ministers who have found place ahead of Sonowal are those of Kerala, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Goa and Gujarat. But then Sarbananda Sonowal has reasons to cheer because he has ranked No 3 among the Chief Ministers of eleven BJP-ruled states. BJP Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat are ahead of Sonowal. The Chief Ministers of the remaining seven Northeastern states – Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura – however have not figured in the survey. And this despite the fact that the sample size was 30,000 and it covered 543 Lok Sabha constituencies of the country.
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