New Delhi: Ace sprinter Dutee Chand has been adjudged one of the top 50 influential Indians by the India Today magazine.
The Olympian from Odisha, who won two silver medals at the 2018 Asian Games and gold in the 2019 ‘world Universiade’ was ranked 47th in the list of influential persons in the magazine’s August issue. The magazine has described her as India’s first “openly gay sportsperson.
The influential list, however, did not include politicians as they were ranked under a separate category ‘India’s most powerful politicians.’ While Narendra Modi, little wonder, was ranked first in the top 10 list, a surprise omission was Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
Naveen, who won the recent state assembly polls to become the CM for the fifth consecutive term, is being hailed as one of the most successful Indian politicians of contemporary times. But his achievement did not seem to have cut much ice with the India Today group.
The top 10 bureaucrats list included Odia born P K Mishra (additional principal secretary in PMO) and Shaktikanta Das (Reserve Bank of India Governor).
50 Most Powerful People In India:
1. Mukesh Ambani
2. Kumar Mangalam Birla
3. Gautam Adani
4. Uday Kotak
5. Anand Mahindra
6. Ratan Tata
7. Virat Kohli
8. N Chandrashekharan
9. Amitabhh Bachchan
10. Shiv Nadar
11. Ajay Piramal
12. Azim H Premji
13. Sajjan Jindal
14. Anil Agarwal
15. Uday Shankar
16. Amit Agarwal
17. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
18. Sanjiv Goenka
19. Harish Salve
20. Sunil Bharti Mittal
21. Akshay Kumar
22. Aditya Puri
23. Nita Ambani
24. Ajay Singh
25. Baba Ramdev
26. Vineet Jain
27. Ranveer Singh
28. Shashi Tharoor
29. Salman Khan
30. RC Bhargava
31. Mahendra Mohan Gupta and Sanjay Gupta
32. Sanjiv Puri
33. Vijay Shekhar Sharma
34. Dr Naresh Trehan
35. Rahul Bhatia
36. Rajinikanth
37. Sanjiv Bajaj
38. Dilip Shanghvi
39. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
40. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
41. Pawan Munjal
42. Deepika Padukone
43. Ritesh Agarwal
44. Kiran Nadar
45. Byju Raveendran
46. Prasoon Joshi
47. Dutee Chand
48. Ekta Kapoor
49. Monika Shergill
50. Amish Tripathi
India’s Most Powerful Politicians:
1. Narendra Modi
2. Amit Shah
3. Mohan Bhagwat
4. Rajnath Singh
5. Nitin Gadkari
6. Nirmala Sitharaman
7. Piyush Goyal
8. Yogi Adityanath
9. Devendra Fadnavis
10. Prakash Javadekar
India’s top Bureaucrats
1. Nripendra Misra
2. Ajit Doval
3. PK Mishra
4. Shaktikanta Das
5. Amitabh Kant
6. Atanu Chakraborty
7. Arvind Kumar Sharma
8. Rajiv Kumar
9. Krishnamurthy Subramanian
10. Hiren Joshi
