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AAP faces flak for Somnath Bharti’s midnight raids in Delhi:ABP News-Nielsen opinion poll
MUMBAI: Aam Admi Party’s image suffers a blow for the midnight raids at Khirki Extension led by party MLA and law minister Somnath Bharti in Delhi, suggests the opinion poll conducted by ABP News-Nielsen. Around 55% respondents surveyed in Delhi feel that recent incident involving Somanath Bharti will have a negative impact on the image of Aam Admi Party.
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5o per cent believe Kejriwal’s dharna over Bharti row not right
According to the ABP News-Nielsen opinion poll, 50 per cent feel that Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal should not have staged dharna and protested against alleged non-cooperation by officers of the Delhi Police in the after math of the incident in Khirki extension. There is a split of opinion amongst total respondents with 48% saying otherwise.
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Delhi CM Kejriwal’s performance above average in last one month
According to the opinion poll conducted by ABP News-Nielsen, majority of the respondents (55%) surveyed in Delhi rated overall performance of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as ‘very good’ or ‘good’ with a mean score of 3.5 which implies an above average performance. Around 38 per cent rated his performance in the last month as chief minister as good. As per the survey, 12 per cent respondents rated the performance of chief minister as ‘poor’ and 4 per cent as ‘very poor’.
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51% to vote for AAP if Lok Sabha polls were held tomorrow
As per the ABP News-Nielsen opinion poll, half of respondent surveyed (51%) said that they will vote for AAP if Lok Sabha elections were held tomorrow. Around 46 per cent said they will not vote for the party. as per the survey, there is a drop of 13% from the Vidhan Sabha voting.
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Majority will vote for AAP if Delhi Vidhan Sabha elections were held tomorrow
As per the ABP News-Nielsen opinion poll, almost two thirds majority, 63% of respondents surveyed said that they will vote for AAP if Delhi Vidhan Sabha elections were held tomorrow.
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50 per cent support Modi as prime minister in Delhi
Narendra Modi is the preference of half of the respondents surveyed in Delhi for the position of Prime Minister. It would appear that about 14% of those who said they would vote for AAP in Lok Sabha elections, would prefer someone other than Arvind Kejriwal as PM. Around 37 respondents voted for Arvind Kejriwal and 10 per cent for Rahul Gandhi as PM.
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The opinion poll was conducted by ABP News-Nielsen between 25th and 26th January, 2014 with 1501 respondents.
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News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI:Â Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.
