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A $39 billion telecoms scam, corruption accusations on carry on October's Commonwealth Games and the resurrection of a 25- year-old defence contract sweetener scandal maintain all dented shared confidence in the crew with the aim of leads the ruling alliance.
Clothed in an selection, conference would find out its majority slashed by a loss of around 40 of its current 206 seats, the AC Neilsen market research showed, as 44 apiece cent of respondents thought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's previously unimpeachable image had been affected by the scandals.
The Mood of the Nation market research, conducted by AC Neilsen and India Today magazine, surveyed 12,349 voters across 19 states in face-to-face interviews sandwiched between Dec 4-19.
Opposition protests on inquiries into the corruption allegations maintain paralysed parliament since November, branding the government as ineffective and probably leading to first elections in the five-year cycle to break the deadlock.
Conference won a flash successive designate in the 2009 elections. The market research thought its highest opposition, the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, would achieve on 20 another seats in a selection if it were held tomorrow.
Conference slipped in popularity by three apiece cent between India's poor - a type constituent of its ballot stack. But 42 apiece cent of respondents thinking a Congress-led alliance would still return to power in a broad-spectrum selection in 2014.
Party chief Sonia Gandhi, seen as the real powerbroker of the crew, maxim her popularity as a prime ministerial candidate tumble to 8 apiece cent from 27 apiece cent in January 2006, with 43 apiece cent of respondents aphorism her image had been affected by the scams.