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| Jupiter is her uplifter | | Sonia Gandhi ranks 13th most powerful woman | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 1: Sonia Gandhi has been named 13th among the 100 most powerful women on the planet. As per a ranking put together by the prestigious Forbes magazine, Sonia Gandhi is ahead of US First Lady, Laura Bush, and England's Queen Elizabeth.
The Forbes magazine says that Sonia Gandhi "is widely revered, especially among the country's poor millions and heads the Left-leaning party where she aqcts as Oppositon leader to pro-business Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh". The citation addes: "Sonia frequently expresses concern that India's astounding economic growth is leaving the poor behind and that her country is not doing enough to help its farmers".
Sonia Gandhi, the magazine stresses, heads the most powerful political party and has travelled far since she tentatively entered India's maelstrom in 1990s. The magazine notes: "She won the general election in May 2004 but then took a pass on the Prime Minister's job, giving it to Dr Singh". The magazine adds: Though critics used the move to call into question her power, 'Sonia is still widely revered especially among the country's poor millions'.
Other Indians on the Forbes 'Top 100 Most Powerful Women List' include chief executive-designate of PepsiCo Indra Nooyi, joint managing directors of ICICI Bank Lalita Gupte and Kalpana Morparia, and chairman of the Dubai-based Jumbo Group Vidya Chhabria. Indra Nooyi has been named the fourth most powerful woman in the world. India-born and educated Nooyi, who was recently selected to become the top honcho of the cola giant, made a gigantic leap this year in the Forbes 'Top 100 Most Powerful Woman List' from her 28th rank in 2005.
Sonia Gandhi, who was number 3 in the 2004 list right behind Condoleezza Rice and Wu Yi and ahead of Laura Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton, has been ranked 13th this year. Nooyi, who migrated to the United States in 1978 after a brief stint in a textile outfit in India, has been showered with praises by the magazine. Nooyi’s profile reads as "few people could handle either the presidential or the chief financial officer job at a $100 billion company."
According to the list, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who did not even figure in last year's choice, overtook US Secretary of State Condolezza Rice to become this year's most powerful woman. The list has 53 women from the United States and five from Britain including Melinda Gates of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (at 12th position) and US Democrat Senator Hillary Clinton is at 18. The US First Lady Laura Bush is found at 43rd most powerful position while Queen Elizabeth booked her place at 46th position followed by Myanmar's pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.
China's Vice Premier Wu Yi was placed at third position on the power ladder while Chairman of Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission Sima Samar was ranked 28th. Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, who is facing an opposition protest led by her bitter rival Awami League's Sheikh Haseena, is positioned at 33 while People's Bank of China's Deputy Governor Wu Xialong was at 35. Haier Group chairman Mian Mian Yang, also from China, was rated 70th most powerful woman in the world.
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