By IANS
New Delhi : Mayawati or Aishwarya Rai? Or maybe, Sania Mirza, Kiran Bedi, Sonia Gandhi – take your pick on whom you think as the most popular Indian woman among the 10 named in an online poll.
The other names in the category are President Pratibha Patil, Vasundhra Raje, Shiela Dikshit, Mamata Banerjee and J. Jayalalitha.
The online poll, by India’s first multi-lingual portal webdunia.com, has Jan 10 as the last day for giving preferences.
Nearly 100 million Internet users can choose whom they think as the most eminent person to have made a splash in fields as diverse as business, politics and sports.
On the world’s most popular global citizen – the names are George Bush, L.N. Mittal, Indira Nooyi, Manmohan Singh, Sunita Williams, Hillary Clinton, David Beckham, Pervez Musharraf, Maria Sharapova and Vladimir Putin.
On the most popular citizen, the list names – Mukesh Ambani, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Amitabh Bachchan, Manmohan Singh, Ratan Tata, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Lata Mangeshkar, Baba Ramdev, Rahul Gandhi and Atal Behari Vajpayee.
In the category of most popular Indian politician, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has been pitted against her own son Rahul. The other names are – Manmohan Singh, L.K. Advani, Laloo Prasad Yadav, P. Chidambaram, Mayawati, Prakash Karat, Narendra Modi and M. Karunanidhi
In the category of most popular actor are – Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Rajanikant, Hrithik Roshan, Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Chiranjeevi, Abhishek Bachchan, Aamir Khan and Mohan Lal.
Among popular actresses, people can choose from Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee, Shreya, Vidya Balan, Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor, Dipika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra, Anushka and Ramya.
Also select the best movie of the year.
This includes last year’s mega success – “Chak De India”, “Bhool Bhulaiya”, “Shivaji”, “Om Shanti Om” and “Namaste London”. Others are – “Aap Ka Suroor”, “Duniya”, “Gandhi My Father”, “Chocolate” and “Guru”.
There is also the category of most popular cricketer and best sportsperson of 2007.
In the first category, the choices are – Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, M.S. Dhoni, Anil Kumble, Zaheer Khan, Rahul Dravid, Saurav Ganguly, Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Gautam Gambhir.
In the second category, it is Sania Mirza, Viswanathan Anand, Dola Banerjee, Prabhjot Singh, Dilip Singh Khali, Abhinav Bindra, Leander Paes, Jeev Milkha Singh, Naraian Karthikeyan and Baichung Bhutia.
So, just click on the site – www.webdunia.com – and name your pick in the language of your choice – Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Bengali.
A team of nine editors of the portal made a list of 10 personalities based on the number of times their names appeared in news and feature columns of Webdunia as well as other user searches in 2007.
The impact of an individual’s choice will be visible online to viewers, seconds after casting the vote.