Congress president Sonia Gandhi has been placed sixth, a notch behind Indra Nooyi, the Indian American chairman and chief executive of PepsiCo, in the Forbes list of the world’s 100 most powerful women.
Ranking Angela Merkel, the first woman to become chancellor of Germany, No. 1 for the second year in a row, the US business magazine said, “She continued to impress the world with her cool leadership at two back-to-back summits.”
Placed above Nooyi and Sonia Gandhi were Chinese Vice premier Wu Yi at No. 2, Ho Ching, chief executive of Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s largest business conglomerate, at No. 3 and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at No. 4.
Gandhi, “the Italian-born leader of India’s most powerful political party, the Indian National Congress Party, has come far since entering politics in the 1990s”, Forbes said, noting Indian lawmakers recently elected her choice for president, Pratibha Patil.
Describing it as “a historic vote seen as a step forward for India’s women and girls who endure daily discrimination”, the magazine said, “The vote, however, saw angry allegations levelled against Patil, over purported corruption and criminal activity in her family”.
Source:IBNLive
