Indian
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has scored high on overall performance during his
first three months in office, but many are disappointed with his new
administration's efforts to bring down inflation, an opinion poll showed.
The
poll conducted by Today's Chanakya, the only pollster that accurately predicted
the scale of Modi's election victory in May, showed almost half of the
respondents felt the Hindu nationalist leader could have taken more stringent
steps to curb inflation.
Modi
rose to power with promises of reviving India's flagging economy and reducing
prices of essential commodities, but consumer price inflation touched a
two-month high of nearly 8 percent in July while food price inflation neared
double digits.
More
than two-thirds of those polled said
