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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is leading an online poll of readers` choice for Time magazine`s `Person of the Year` in 2016 honour, which has contenders like US President-elect Donald Trump, the outgoing US leader Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin.For the fourth year in a row, Modi is among the contenders for Time`s `Person of the Year` honour, which the US publication bestows every year to the one "who has most influenced the news and our world in the past year, for good or ill." Last year German Chancellor Angela Merkel was Time`s `Person of the Year`. While each year Time`s editors make the ultimate decision as to who from among world leaders, presidents, protesters, astronauts, pop icons and disrupters should be person of the year, it also asks readers to cast their votes and decide who they think most shaped a particular year.Time said the reader poll is an "important window" into who they think most shaped 2016. According to initial votes cast in the readers` poll, Modi is leading with 21 per cent voting in his favour.
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