Shah Rukh Khan tops 2023 TIME100 poll, get more votes than Messi, Prince Harry, Meghan Markle
Mumbai: King Khan has won the 2023 TIME100 reader poll in which readers voted for the individuals they felt deserved a spot on Time's annual list of the most influential people. He received 4 percent of the 1.2 million votes cast by readers in the 2023 TIME100 poll. Iranian women who are protesting for their rights won second place.
Actor Shah Rukh Khan also scored more votes than Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who took the fourth spot, with each of them getting 1.9% of the votes. He also got more votes than Lionel Messi who took the fifth spot on the list getting 1.8% of the votes.
TIME’s annual list of the most influential people for 2023 will be released later this month. In 2022, Gautam Adani, Karuna Nundy, and Khurram Parvez were the only Indians who featured on the list.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
