Trump is TIME’s Person of the Year, while Indians take solace in Modi winning the popular vote

According to TIME, “Modi won with 18 per cent of the vote when the poll closed Sunday at midnight. He placed well ahead of his closest contenders, including Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Julian Assange, who all received 7 per cent of the ‘yes’ vote.” The report also added that PM Modi also placed far ahead of other prominent like Mark Zuckerberg (2 per cent) and Hillary Clinton (4 per cent).

In 2015, Modi had appeared on TIME cover when the magazine had done an exclusive interview with him after he became the Prime Minister. He also featured on the magazine cover in 2012, when he was the Gujarat chief minister.

While many Modi supporters rooted for their favourite leader winning the title, much like the US elections, Donald Trump took the chair away.

While Twitterati seemed volubly angry at the decision and slammed the magazine for naming Donald Trump as the Person of the Year, Indians seem to take solace in the fact that at least Modi won the popular vote.

Trump aur Modi ka TIME accha chal raha hai.

— Nishant (@Nsihnat) December 7, 2016

Donald Trump TIME Person of the Year. But Narendra Modi won the online popular vote by a big margin. https://t.co/BL9tnnBwQ1

— INDIA•CD (@indiacd) December 7, 2016

Trump beats Modi to Time POY. Half of Americans hate him. Now a quarter of Indians hate him too. 😜 #Trump #TIMEPOY

— Vipul (@beaufort_vk) December 7, 2016

I was very skeptical that @TIME Magazine would name an Indian as person of the year.Poll was just a gimmick.#Modi https://t.co/vptfA9Zeo2

— Arnab Ganguly (@connect_arnab) December 7, 2016

#TimesPersonOfTheYear kya hua….Trump chune gaye””‘?😢N.Modi ji nahi.

— R.K.SHARMA (@RKSHARM57715137) December 7, 2016

@TIME how come trump suddenly be that,when modi was in lead actually?

— Nandu (@NanduSava) December 7, 2016

Time Time ki baat hai , Jaha Modi waha Trump!

— Raving Panda (@ErHiteshKataria) December 7, 2016

Modi won the Time Reader Poll.
Trump won Time Person of the Year 2016
Kejriwal won Time Pass Person of the Year
Win Win situation for every1

— The VVIP (@MrVVIPAK) December 7, 2016

@TIME shame on u biased American Media 👊 if u wanna select by urself thn why u hv conducted poll’s ? Trump got 7℅whereas #modi ji got 18℅

— Sheshagiri deshpande (@spdwall) December 7, 2016

Some others did not like both Trump and Modi winning the titles and were of view that both were “two sides of the same coin”.

Donald Trump wins Time person of the year 2016. Modi was actually Time ‘pass’ person of the year. The Bhakths totally missed the plot 😂

— Conrad Barreto (@conradbeckham) December 7, 2016

Take heart Bhakts.. Modi nd Trump r two sides of the same coin, if one wins, samaj lena doosra bhi jeet gaya …
Baat ek hi hai! https://t.co/NqSNjmU95L

— kiran martis (@kiranmartis9) December 7, 2016

Donald Trump is Time magazine’s person of the year, while Narendra Modi wins the readers’ poll!

Not a good TIME to be a fiberal!

— Shefali Vaidya (@ShefVaidya) December 7, 2016

Modi Trump same same, NO? https://t.co/lmFpsaCx0N

— SANJAY HEGDE (@sanjayuvacha) December 7, 2016

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But this tweet summed up everything about TIME magazine’s Person of the Year debate.

The left both in America & India had a field day comparing Trump & Modi (#TimeMagazine‘s Poll winner) to 1938 TIME Man of year Adolf Hitler.

— iSirmour (@iSirmour) December 7, 2016

What do you think about the debate?