BJP President Amit Shah is Yahoo’s Personality of the Year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the most searched personality and bags Yahoo’s People’s Choice Award for Personality of the Year 2017.

Announcing the findings from its 2017 Year in Review for India, based on users’ search and reading preferences, Yahoo explained that Shah’s skills in ensuring various successes for the BJP and his influence on Modi’s hold over the country and the BJP, without which “Modi might find it difficult to hold on to his high popularity”, prompted Yahoo to give him the title.

While Modi polled 43 per cent votes in the People’s Choice survey online, actor Priyanka Chopra followed with 12 per cent of the votes.

Others in the most searched list included deceased Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, her aide Sasikala, Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi, UP and Delhi Chief Ministers Yogi Adityanath and Arvind Kejriwal, businessman Vijay Mallya, cricketer Virat Kohli, Kulbhushan Jadhav, the Indian citizen now in a Pakistan jail, and Honeypreet Insaan, aide of convicted guru Gurmeet Ram Raheem Singh.

Aadhaar topped the ‘Most Searched Newsy Terms’ category. The others included GST and the Ryan school murder. GST was also the Top Business Story That Shook the Nation. Other stories on this list were India’s move up 30 places in the World Bank’s ease of doing business ranking, and Moody’s Investor Services’ first sovereign rating upgrade for India in 14 years.

Sunny Leone continued her reign as Most Searched Female Celebrity, while actor Vinod Khanna, who passed away this year, was the Most Searched Male Celebrity. Olympian and badminton player PV Sindhu, women’s cricket team captain Mithali Raj and team member Harmanpreet Kaur were among the most searched sports personalities.

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