Dutee Chand named in ‘50 most powerful people of India’

New Delhi: Ace sprinter Dutee Chand has been named in India Today’s 50 most powerful people in India this year.

Published in the August edition of the India Today magazine, Olympian Dutee has been ranked 47th in the annual High & Mighty list that is topped by the world’s 13th richest man – Mukesh Ambani.

The English magazine termed Dutee as India’s first openly ‘gay’ sportsperson in its brief description.

“India’s first openly ‘gay’ sportsperson, Dutee Chand won two silver medals at the 2018 Asian Games. She also won gold at the 2019 World Unversiade. With the gold, Dutee Chand became the second Indian sprinter ever to do so at a global event,” India Today wrote.

Kumar Mangalam Birla has been ranked second in the list of most powerful Indians followed by Gautam Adani, Uday Kotak, Anand Mahindra and Ratan Tata.

Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli has been ranked 7th in the list, while Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan is in the 9th position in the list.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi tops the list of most powerful politicians in the country.

This year’s list of most powerful Indians has 27 businessmen and women, up from 22 last year, the magazine said.

Here’s the list of India Today’s 50 most powerful people in India

1. Mukesh Ambani

2. Kumar Mangalam Birla

3. Gautam Adani

4. Uday Kotak

5. Anand Mahindra

6. Ratan Tata

7. Virat Kohli

8. N Chandrashekharan

9. Amitabhh Bachchan

10. Shiv Nadar

11. Ajay Piramal

12. Azim H Premji

13. Sajjan Jindal

14. Anil Agarwal

15. Uday Shankar

16. Amit Agarwal

17. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

18. Sanjiv Goenka

19. Harish Salve

20. Sunil Bharti Mittal

21. Akshay Kumar

22. Aditya Puri

23. Nita Ambani

24. Ajay Singh

25. Baba Ramdev

26. Vineet Jain

27. Ranveer Singh

28. Shashi Tharoor

29. Salman Khan

30. RC Bhargava

31. Mahendra Mohan Gupta and Sanjay Gupta

32. Sanjiv Puri

33. Vijay Shekhar Sharma

34. Dr Naresh Trehan

35. Rahul Bhatia

36. Rajinikanth

37. Sanjiv Bajaj

38. Dilip Shanghvi

39. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

40. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

41. Pawan Munjal

42. Deepika Padukone

43. Ritesh Agarwal

44. Kiran Nadar

45. Byju Raveendran

46. Prasoon Joshi

47. Dutee Chand

48. Ekta Kapoor

49. Monika Shergill

50. Amish Tripathi

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