Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal On Fortune’s List Of ’50 Greatest Leaders’, PM Modi Not On List

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who had been in form related to the problems of the common man and resolving them and attracted many people in Delhi to become what he is today. Arvind Kejriwal has been named among the world’s 50 greatest leaders by Fortune magazine with the Delhi CM being the sole Indian leader on the list topped by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

Fortune 50 greatest leaders

This list featured men and women from across the globe from the fields of business, government, philanthropy and the arts who are “transforming the world and inspiring others to do the same.” Kejriwal is ranked 42nd on the list and he is the sole leader from India. Fortune credits Kejriwal for his efforts to remove pollution in New Delhi through the scheme of allowing vehicles of odd and even numbers on alternate days on the city roads.

“The uplifting result of the pilot this January: roads were less clogged, hourly particulate air pollution concentrations dropped by 13 percent, and citizens could breathe deep,” Fortune said. It said leadership is not “demagoguery, pandering, even populism” but is defined by people across the world “you’ve never heard of who are rallying followers to make life better in ways you never imagined.”

Pollution free Delhi

Bezos, who topped the list this year, has been on the list all three times, along with Pope Francis at the 4th position followed by Apple CEO Tim Cook.

The list includes German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2), Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at (3), US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko (22), IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde (36), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Co-chair and CEO Melinda Gates and Susan Desmond-Hellmann (41), Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (48) and Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay (50). Also, on the list is Saujani, Founder and CEO of tech organization ‘Girls Who Code’.

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