The Donald trumps Modi to become Time's 'Person of the Year'
NEW YORK: US President-elect Donald Trump was named Person of the Year 2016 by Time magazine on Wednesday for his stunning upset victory in the presidential election.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among 11 candidates shortlisted by Time for its annual honour. He won the online readers’ poll conducted by Time but was beaten back back by Trump.
"It's a great honour. It means a lot. I have grown up reading Time magazine. It’s a very important magazine. It is a tremendous honour. I was lucky to be on the cover of Time in the past," Trump told NBC's news programmeToday minutes after the magazine announced the result.
The US magazine said that after campaigning as an anti-establishment, populist candidate, 70-year-old Trump - the 45th President-elect — delivered a stunning end to a presidential bid that repeatedly broke political precedent.
The first runner-up for the title is Trump's rival in the presidential elections and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, for her symbolic, fight up-to the presidential race.
Online hackers closed in on second, for their constant breach of websites and their brazen attack on American democracy, especially with a string of high-profile mail-leaks during the Presidential campaign.
The Person of the Year is picked by Time editors from among world leaders, artists, corporate czars and organisations who most influenced the news, for better or for worse.
The other contenders were US gymnast Simone Biles, CRISPR Scientists who developed a groundbreaking new technology that can edit DNA, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, UK
Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, the Flint Whistleblowers, who along with civil-engineering professor Marc Edwards and local pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha blew the whistle on lead-poisoned water in Flint, Michigan, singer
Beyonce, Russian president Vladimir Putin and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.