Last year, German chancellor Angela Merkel was Time’s ‘Person of the Year’. According to initial votes cast in the readers’ poll, Modi is leading with 21% votes in his favour. For a while Wikileaks founder Julian Assange had overtaken Trump for the lead in the online poll, getting 10% of all the “yes” votes cast by participants, Time had said. Time also analysed the moments from 2016 when this year’s poll contenders were most talked about. Modi won the readers’ poll of Time’s Person of the Year in 2014, securing more than 16% of the almost five million votes cast.

Source: Mint November 29, 2016 07:06 UTC