PC beats big ones
Bollywood diva Priyanka Chopra has garnered more votes than Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a TIME magazine`s readers’ poll ahead of the annual list of the ‘World’s 100 Most Influential People’ that the magazine publishes every year. The magazine said Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders won three times more votes than his rival Hillary Clinton, ahead of President Barack Obama, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai.The magazine conducts an online poll ahead of publishing the list of 100 most influential people. The poll, a gauge of popular mood, though not essentially scientific, closed April 13 at midnight. The TIME list will come out April 21.Chopra, who became famous in the U.S. for her role in the TV serial “Quantico,” got 0.8 percent of ‘yes’ votes, compared to 0.7 percent for Modi.Sanders got 3.3 percent to Clinton’s 1 percent. Donald Trump, the Republican presidential contender, obtained 0.6 percent of the votes. South Korean boy band Big Bang stood second in popularity after Sanders. The polls called for votes both in favor of and against a person.
