vIndianz.com (3 Mar, 2010) — New Delhi: Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and industrialist Ratan Tata top the list of 100 most trusted Indians while artist M.F. Husain, who was in news after being granted as Qatari citizen, is at 91 and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati is at the very bottom, according to a Reader’s Digest survey released on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is sanwiched between world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand (who is at No. 6) and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar (at No. 8).
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is at 10th place along with Wipro chairman Azim Premji and Indian Space Research Organisation M Madhavan Nair.
Congress party general secretary Rahul Gandhi is ranked 29th in the survey published in the March edition of Reader’s Digest that hit the stands Tuesday, according to IANS news agency.
Others in the top 10 list of India’s most trusted Indians are former police officer Kiran Bedi (3rd), Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy (4th), music composer A.R. Rahman (5th) and cartoonist R.K. Laxman (9th).
According to the survey, Indians top most trusted professions are teachers, followed by firefighters and farmers are at No.3.
Scientists and members of the armed forces share fourth position, with doctors at sixth, pilots at seventh, surgeons at eighth, nurses at ninth and engineers at 10th.
At the bottom end of the scale of 40 most trusted professions are religious leaders (35), lawyers (36), police officers (37), government officials (38), realtors (39) and politicians (40).
Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is ranked at 42nd, way below shooter and Olympic gold medal winner Abhinav Bindra (25th), while tennis star Sania Mirza is at 81st.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani is at 94, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee at 96, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar at 97, Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Prakash Karat at 98 and former railway minister Lalu Prasad at 99.
Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi is just one notch above Advani.
Actors Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan at 14 and 18, respectively, with TV comic Jaspal Bhatti at 43, scriptwriter Javed Akhtar at 46, Shah Rukh Khan at 53, Sushmita Sen at 64, Rajnikanth at 67, Kamal Haasan at 71, director Anurag Kashyap at 78, Malayalam actor Mohanlal at 80, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan at 82 and TV serial producer Ekta Kapoor at 95.
President Pratibha Patil is ranked way below at 67, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia at 41, Home Minister P. Chidambaram at 50, novelist Khushwant Singh at 51 and environmentalist R.K. Pachauri at 61 along with TV anchor Rajdeep Sardesai.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi is at 72, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee at 73, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor at 84, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Arun Jaitley at 86, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi at 87 and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah at 89.
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