Odias Figure In India Today’s List of Influential People

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