New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi is the CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2014. He guided the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance to a massive win in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
With the biggest mandate since 1984 and the first time since then that a single party has managed to secure majority on its own in the Lok Sabha, Modi addressed thousands of his cheering supporters calling the May 16 verdict as historic.
The BJP and its allies brushed aside the challenge of their rivals to easily cross the 300-seat mark with the BJP alone crossing the half-way mark of 272 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha to script history.
His name was not in the list of 35 nominees in various categories.
This is the ninth edition of the awards which were introduced in 2006. The awards adhere to a robust procedure in selecting the awardees which is finalised by a Jury consisting of a select group of distinguished personalities.
The jury consists of Padma Vibhushan Soli Jehangir Sorabjee, Padma Bhushan Deepak S Parekh, Padma Shri Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair, Padma Shri Kiran Karnik and tennis ace Leander Paes.
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