PM Narendra Modi Can Be Time’s Person Of The Year.

Person of the year is a title given by Time Magazine every year, since 1927, to the most influential person of the year. The title can be given to any prominent personality, from a president to an entrepreneur, protester to activists, astronauts to a journalist. A list containing, some of the most prominent personalities all around the world is made, which is further put out for public polling. The people on this list reflect a person, or an idea, that has most influenced the news and the world in the past year. The influence can be a positive or a negative one.

In this year’s poll, India’s Prime Minister is leading the public poll with a whopping 21%, which is kind of shocking as none of the other candidates on the poll is not even close to PM Modi. In fact, none of the candidate’s public poll even contributes to a double digit percentile. The Time magazine also gave out the dates and reasons for which each of the candidates was most talked about on the Internet. For Narendra Modi, it was October 16 when he suggested that one of India’s neighbouring country, that is Pakistan, is the mothership of Terrorism.

After PM Modi, Julian Assange is on the second position with 8% public votes. Julian Assange is the founder of Wikileaks, which was in the news a lot in the past year because of their involvement with Hillary Clinton’s candidacy for US President position. However, on October 4 Assange said that Wikileaks would release documents that were significant to US selection, and this was his most talked about move of the year.

With 7% votes till now, Barack Obama is on the third position through public polls. He is the current President of United States and did & said many things this year, but on September 23 he spoke about Donald Trump because of which he was all over the internet.

Other candidates in the poll are:

1. Vladimir Putin: Russia’s President with 6% votes.
2. Donald Trump: President-elect of US with 6% votes.
3. Whistleblowers of Flint, Mich.: Water-crisis activists with 6% votes.
4. Bernie Sanders: Vermont Senator and Presidential candidate with 5% votes
5. Michelle Obama: First Lady of the United States with 5% votes.
6. The CRISPR Scientists: Genetic Researchers with 4% votes.
7. Khizr and Ghazala Khan: Gold Star Parents and Democratic National Convention speakers with 4% votes.
8. Hillary Clinton: Democratic Nominee for President of the United States with 4% votes.
9. Nigel Farage: U.K. Independence Party leader with 3% votes.
10. Lin-Manuel Miranda: Creator and original star of Hamilton with 3% votes.
11. Mark Zuckerberg: CEO of Facebook with 3% votes.
12. Simone Biles: an Olympic gymnast with 2% votes.
13. Samantha Bee: Host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee with 1% votes.
14. James Comey: Director of the FBI with 1% votes.
15. Tim Cook: CEO of Apple Inc. with 1% votes.
16. LeBron James: Cleveland Cavaliers basketball player with 1% votes.
17. Leslie Jones: Saturday Night Live comedian with 1% votes.
18. Colin Kaepernick: San Francisco 49ers quarterback with 1% votes.
19. Megyn Kelly: Fox News Anchor with 1% votes.
20. Kim Jong Un: Supreme Leader of North Korea with 1% votes.
21. Beyonce Knowles: Artist with 1% votes.
22. Marine Le Pen: French National Front Party Leader with 1% votes.
23. Theresa May: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom with 1% votes.
24. Diamond Reynolds: Witness to the death of Philando Castille with 1% votes.
25. Xi Jinping: President of China with 1% votes.
26. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: President of Turkey with 0% votes.
27. Gretchen Carlson: Former Fox News Anchor with 0% votes.

The reader’s choice voting is still in process and will end on December 4, at 11:59 p.m. ET.

These public polls do not contribute in anyway to the final selection of Time’s Person Of The Year title, as the power is solely rested with Time’s editors. However, it does give an insight into which major figures in the world have shaped the world in their possible way.

This year’s title can be crowned to President-elect Donald Trump, as from past many years the same have been seen. It is common to give the title to President-elects, Bill Clinton won the title in 1992, George W. Bush won the title twice in 2000 and 2014. President Barack Obama also won the title two times in the year of his win, that is 2008 and 2012.

The final winner of Time’s Person Of The Year would be revealed on 7 December 2016.

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29 November 2016
jyotsna Amla