What the TIME Poll Says About Modi

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Supporters climb poles to get a glimpse of Narendra Modi during a rally at Mathura in Uttar Pradesh. The BJP leader has addressed over 150 rallies across the country, logging in the maximum flying hours among all electioneering politicos

166,260 is the total number of ‘no’ votes that Narendra Modi received in the Time magazine readers’ poll of 100 Most Influential People. The BJP’s prime ministerial candidate received a total of 330,832 hits, but the negative votes outweighed his ‘yes’ votes. He notched the maximum percentage of negative votes. The winner was decided by the number of ‘yes’ votes, and that honour went to Arvind Kejriwal, Aam Admi Party chief. Kejriwal, Modi’s bête noire in battleground Varanasi, is the overall winner of the poll with 261,114 ‘yes’ votes.