Miley Cyrus way ahead of Modi on Time's Person of the Year poll

Till yesterday, BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi was leading the Time’s Person of the Year poll, garnering over 2650 votes and about 25 percent of the vote. But Miley Cyrus fans have clearly come out in full force, propelling the tongue wagging, twerking superstar ahead of the Gujarat Chief Minister. According to a Mashable graph, Miley has won nearly 28 percent of the votes and is now leading Time magazine’s Person of the Year online poll. Former NSA defense contractor Edward Snowden is second with 18.5 percent of the votes till now. [caption id=“attachment_1252363” align=“alignright” width=“600”]  Image from Twitter[/caption] And Modi has dropped from clear leader to third place, a full 5.5 percentage points behind Edward Snowden, and three percentage points ahead of Syria President Bashar al-Assad. Pop-star Miley has always been the topic of conversation on social media. Her twerk-filled MTV VMAs performance dominated social conversations for months, her nude “Wrecking Ball” video set a new YouTube record for most views in 24 hours, and she also added a new word to the Oxford Dictionaries Online. No prizes for guessing that the word was ’twerk’. Time has described Modi as “the controversial Hindu nationalist and Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat is the most likely candidate to unseat India’s ruling Congress party in the world’s largest democracy. Other candidates in fray are Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, US President Barack Obama, Pakistani teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and even the new heir to the British throne Prince George. The prestigious honor has routinely gone to world leaders (US President Barack Obama in 2012 and 2008; Vladimir Putin in 2007; George W. Bush in 2004 and 2000) or groups of people (protestor in 2011; “you” in 2006; good samaritans in 2005; the American soldier in 2003). Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg earned the title in 2010, while Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke received it in 2009. But there is still some hope for Modi. The poll winner, which will be revealed 6 December, isn’t necessarily the person who becomes Time’s Person of the Year, as the editors will pick and then announce that honor on 11 December.