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Mamata among Time's 100 most influential
people
Wednesday April 18, 2012 09:37:25 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: Time
magazine has listed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as
one of the 100 most influential people in the world in its list
for 2012, sharing space with the likes of US President Barack
Obama and billionaire investor Warren Buffet.
The magazine has described the people in the list as "who inspire
us, entertain us, challenge us and change our world".
The list is topped by American basketball player Jeremy Shu-How
Lin who plays for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball
Association (NBA).
"Mamata Banerjee rose to the fore last year when she and a
movement she built from the grassroots wrested control of her home
state of West Bengal, ending three and a half decades of sclerotic
communist rule.
"Banerjee, 57, spent years struggling on the margins, her
Trinamool Congress Party a feisty rabble compared with the
leviathan of West Bengal's communists," said the magazine about
the leader.
Describing her achievements, the magazine goes on say: "On the
streets, she out-Marxed the Marxists. And as chief minister of her
home state, she has emerged as a populist woman of action -
strident and divisive but poised to play an even greater role in
the world's largest democracy."
The other Indian to feature in the list is Anjali Gopalan - the
founder and executive director of The Naz Foundation (India)
Trust, an NGO dedicated to the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic
in India.
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