PM Narendra Modi has made it to Time magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People 2020’. PM Narendra Modi is the only politician from India who get featured in the ‘Leaders’ category. Other politicians in the list include US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden.
Bollywood actor Ayushmann Khurrana also makes it to the list along with the 82-year-old woman who protested against CAA at Shaheen Bagh, the list also incorporates five Indian trailblazers who have made waves in the last one year.
While including PM Modi in the compelling rundown, Time didn’t avoid proposing that Modi, as India’s PM, had “brought into question” India’s secular nature where “Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and different strict groups – all have stayed in India”. Time noticed that “the Dalai Lama has commended the nation as ‘a case of harmony and strength’.”
Scrutinizing the egalitarian vote which PM Modi and his BJP got in two progressive General Elections in 2014 and 2019 – the subsequent one being a greater order – Time contends “free elections only tell who got the most votes” and does not necessarily represent “those who did not vote for the winner”.
It might be reviewed here that during his over six years’ standard up until now, PM Modi has stressed on taking up and down the way of advancement with the saying: “Sabka saath, sabka vikas, sabka vishwas,” signifying “together, for everybody’s development, with everybody’s trust”.
In May last year also, Time had an article that called PM Modi “India’s Divider in Chief”. In any case, only weeks after the fact, the magazine distributed an article named ‘Modi Has United India Like No Prime Minister in Decades’.