Modi to become Time Person of the Year

Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears favourite to win the 'Time Person of the Year' poll, leading the online voting with a comfortable margin ahead of Ferguson protesters as voting closed for the annual honour.

Mr Modi was the frontrunner with 16.2 per cent votes, followed by Ferguson protesters who got 9.2 per cent votes at the time the polls closed midnight on Saturday.

While Time magazine's editors will choose the 'Person of the Year', the winner of the readers' poll will be announced on December 8.

The annual honour, bestowed by the magazine since 1927, goes to the person who "most influenced the news" during the year "for better or worse".

In a separate "Face-off" poll, Mr Modi has been pitted against Indonesia's new president Joko Widodo.

In this poll also, Mr Modi has maintained a significant lead and garnered 69 per cent votes as against Widodo's 31 per cent.

At the third position was 18-year-old student activist Joshua Wong, who has become the face of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests.

He had got seven per cent of the votes cast, followed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai with 4.9 per cent votes.

US President Barack Obama could not make it to the top 10 slots and was trailing with 2.2 per cent votes at the 11th position.

The Ferguson protesters had temporarily taken the lead from Mr Modi last week as people around the US demonstrated against a grand jury's decision not to indict white police officer Darren Wilson who shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in August.

But Mr Modi, "seen by many in India and around the world as having the potential to reinvigorate the country's economy," soon regained the lead in the online poll.

Mr Modi is among 50 global leaders, business chiefs and pop icons named as contenders for the honour. more  

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Yes. It was thrilling. I had personally made requests to my friends, family members and facebook friends and twitter followers to vote for Shri Modiji consistently. more  
Very good news, but it will not be tasty & zesty for Congress+ other opposition parties in India. more  
Good News. World will now look at India in an entirely different manner. more  
Good. All in six months. More than one can say for the past PMs. more  
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