Narendra Modi in Business Week’s 50 most powerful Indians list

Gujarat Chief Mininster Narendra Modi has been named among the 50 most powerful people in India by American magazine Business week.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Opposition leader L K Advani, business tycoons Mukesh and Anil Ambani, corporate czar Ratan Tata, star cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee, music maestro A R Rahman, BSP chief Mayawati, Olympics gold medallist Abhinav Bindra and Security and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairman C B Bhave also feature in the league of 50.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Prakash Karat, Mahindra and Mahindra’s Managing Director Anand Mahindra, steel czar Lakshmi Mittal, telecom tycoon Sunil Mittal, Indian Premier League Chairman Lalit Modi and Indian Space Research Organisation’s Chairman G Madhavan Nair and bankers — K V Kamath and Deepak Parekh also feature in the list.

“In modern India, even powerful reigns can be short-lived. In the newest edition of BusinessWeek’s list of the 50 most influential Indians, politicians jostle for space with professors, businessmen with cricketers,” the magazine said.

Recently Narendra Modi was declared India’s No.1 Chief Minister consequently for fifth time by India’s premier magazine, India Today.