Prime Minister Narendra Modi have been named among the world’s 100 most influential people of 2021 by TIME magazine.
Other leaders like West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla have also been named by TIME magazine.
On Wednesday unveiled its annual list of ‘The 100 Most Influential People of 2021′, a global list that includes US President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Duke and Duchess of Sussex Prince Harry and Meghan, former US president Donald Trump and co-founder of the Taliban Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.
TIME’s profile of Modi says that in its 74 years as an independent nation, India has had three pivotal leaders – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Modi. “Narendra Modi is the third, dominating the country’s politics like no one since them.”
The profile written by noted CNN journalist Fareed Zakaria alleges that Modi has “pushed the country away from secularism and toward Hindu nationalism.”
