Modi 2nd, Mukesh Ambani 12th, Ahmed Patel 14th most powerful person in India:Indian Express ranking

Ahmedabad, DeshGujarat, 23 April 2013

Indian Express has today published a list of India’s most power full 100 Indians in year 2013.

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been placed at no.2 position ahead of Sonia Gandhi who is on no.3 position. Rahul Gandhi has been placed at no.1 position as he is the center point of the ruling party in India presently. Last year, in same list, Modi was placed at no.14.

Interestingly Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has been placed at no.4 position followed by Chidambaram at no.5.

Gujarati business tycoon Mukesh Ambani is on no.12 position. The most powerful Congress man from Gujarat – Ahmed Patel is on no.14 position. Anil Ambani is on 29th rank.

Among a list of top 10 state bureaucrats in India, Gujarat Chief Minister office man K.Kailashnathan is no.1. Last year he was on no. 10 in India’s most powerful bureaucrats. This year, IE has separated the lists of most poweful state bureaucrats and national bureaucrats. Kailashnathan is scheduled to retire in May 2013. The Indian Express describes K.Kailashnathan this way: The most powerful bureaucrat in Gujarat. Popularly known as KK, the Additional Chief Secretary is CM Narendra Modi’s ‘ideas man’.

If you consider Ratan Tata, Cyrus Mistry of Tata and Azim Premji of Wipro as Gujarati origin persons, they too are there in the list.