Washington, December 5 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday regained the top position in the ‘Time Person of the Year’ poll. According to the latest results of the reader’s poll, Modi has 12.8 per cent of the total votes accrued till now.
He is followed by Ferguson protesters from the U.S. with 10.1 per cent. Joshua Wong, the face of the Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, is placed third with 7.5 per cent, and Pakistan’s teenagers’ rights activist Malala Yousafzai is fourth with 5.2 per cent.
Russian President Vladimir Putin with 4.1 per cent has been pushed to sixth place by Ebola doctors and nurses, who are now in fifth place with 4.5 per cent. US President Barack Obama is placed at a distant 11th position with just 2.3 per cent of the total votes.
The annual poll is scheduled to end on December 6 and the winner will be announced on December 10. Since 1927, TIME has named a person who, according to it, has most influenced the news and lives in that year.
-INDIA TODAY
