Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emerged at the top of the just-announced list of 100 most powerful citizens. Ahead of the Lok Sabha Elections, the IE 100 List shows how BJP remains in a strong position. Although the list is dominated by top politicians and ministers in the Narendra Modi government, there are some key figures from India Inc, sports and entertainment industry.
Talking about the top 5 people, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dominates the IE100 list. PM Modi is ranked no.1, Union Home Minister Amit Shah is at number 2 followed by RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat, Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar at number 5.
Interestingly, India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani lost the spot in the top 10 list and is ranked at 11. The profound list fails to allot space to women sports personalities except Vinesh Phogat who shook the Delhi streets with her protest against sexual offender WFI Chief Sanjay Singh and his loyalist Brijbhusan Bhavan.
Here’s the full list of the top 100 influential personalities in India:
- Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India
- Amit Shah, Union Home Minister
- Mohan Bhagwat, RSS chief
- DY Chandrachud, Chief Justice of India
- S Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister
- Yogi Adityanath, Uttar Pradesh CM
- Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister
- Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister
- JP Nadda, BJP national president
- Gautam Adani, Chairman, Adani Group
- Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, RIL
- Piyush Goyal, Commerce Minister and Leader of the House, Rajya Sabha
- Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Railways, Telecom and IT
- Himanta Biswa Sarma, Assam CM
- Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal CM and TMC chief
- Rahul Gandhi, Congress MP
- Ajit Doval, National Security Advisor
- Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi CM and AAP supremo
- Shaktikanta Das, RBI governor
- Hardeep Singh Puri, Union Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs and Petroleum & Natural Gas
- Sanjiv Khanna, Supreme Court Judge
- Siddaramaiah, Karnataka CM
- Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Chemicals and Fertilisers
- Nitish Kumar, Bihar CM and JDU chief
- MK Stalin, Tamil Nadu CM
- Nita Ambani, Chairperson and founder, Reliance Foundation
- Shah Rukh Khan, Actor
- Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Chairperson, Tata Group
- Sonia Gandhi, Former Congress president
- Rahul Navin, Acting Director, Enforcement Directorate
- Bhupender Yadav, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
- Anurag Thakur, Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Sports and Youth Affairs
- Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Education
- Dattatreya Hosabale, General Secretary, RSS
- Jay Shah, BCCI secretary
- Mallikarjun Kharge, President, Indian National Congress
- Azim Premji, Founder, Wipro
- Virat Kohli, India batsman
- Anumula Revanth Reddy, Telangana CM
- Vinai Kumar Saxena, Delhi L-G
- Uday Kotak, Non-Executive Director
- Nandan Nilekani, Co-founder and Chairman of the Board, Infosys
- Anand Mahindra, Chairman, of the Mahindra Group
- Rajiv Bajaj, Managing Director, Bajaj Auto
- Neelkanth Mishra, Chief Economist, Axis Bank
- Neeraj Chopra, Olympic champion
- Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Odisha
- Eknath Shinde, Chief Minister of Maharashtra
- Pinarayi Vijayan, Chief Minister of Kerala
- Devendra Fadnavis, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra
- Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General of India
- PK Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister
- Manoj Sinha, Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
- Sameer Nigam, Founder and CEO, PhonePe
- Mohan Yadav, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
- YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
- Kiran Nadar, Chairperson, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
- MS Dhoni, Chennai Super Kings captain
- Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State of Electronics and IT, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, and Jal Shakti
- Sunil Bansal, National General Secretary, BJP
- Pushkar Singh Dhami, Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
- Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress general secretary
- Rajiv Kumar, Chief Election Commissioner
- Bhagwant Mann, Chief Minister of Punjab
- General Anil Chauhan, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)
- TV Somanathan, Finance and Expenditure Secretary
- CR Paatil, Gujarat BJP President and Lok Sabha MP
- Rohit Sharma, India cricket captain
- Madhabi Puri Buch, Chairperson, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
- Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Minister of Jal Shakti
- Bhupendra Patel, Chief Minister of Gujarat
- DK Shivakumar, Deputy Chief Minister, Karnataka; state Congress chief
- Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, Leader of Opposition in Bihar; RJD leader
- Bhajan Lal Sharma, Chief Minister of Rajasthan
- Akhilesh Yadav, President of Samajwadi Party
- Ajit Pawar, Deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, and President, the Nationalist Congress Party
- Vishnu Deo Sai, Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh
- Asaduddin Owaisi, AIMIM President and Hyderabad MP
- Alia Bhatt, Actor, producer, entrepreneur
- Harish Salve, Former Solicitor General of India
- General Manoj Pande, Chief of Army Staff
- Manohar Lal Khattar, Chief Minister of Haryana
- S Somanath, Chairman, ISRO
- Shashi Tharoor, Congress MP and author
- Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group
- Ramdev, Yoga guru, businessman
- Deepika Padukone, Actor
- Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairperson, Bharati Enterprises
- Praful Khoda Patel, Administrator of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, and Lakshadweep
- Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, Chief Minister, Himachal Pradesh
- Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Leader of the Indian National Congress in Lok Sabha
- Prashant Bhushan, Public interest lawyer
- Hemant Soren, Former Chief Minister, Jharkhand
- Sharad Pawar, President, Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar)
- Uddhav Thackeray, President, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)
- Sadhguru, Founder, Isha Foundation
- Karan Johar, Director and producer
- Yusuff Ali M A, Chairman and MD, Lulu group
- Amitabh Bachchan, Actor
- Vinesh Phogat, World Champion, wrestling