Indian Express released the list of India’s most powerful 2025. While some continued to remain on the list from the previous year, a few new faces surfaced. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah retained their ranks. Power Star Pawan Kalyan, Pushpa fame Allu Arjun, Tamil actor Vijay, and Bollywood actor and singer Diljit Dosanjh made a first time entry. Check out the rank-wise India’s most powerful 2025.

 

1. Narendra Modi, 74 – Prime Minister of India

Rank last year: 1

2. Amit Shah, 60- Union Home Minister

Rank last year: 2

3. S Jaishankar, 70- Union Minister for External Affairs

Rank last year: 5

4. Mohan Bhagwat, 74- RSS Sarsanghchalak

Rank last year: 3

5. Nirmala Sitharaman, 65- Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs

Rank last year: 8

6. Yogi Adityanath, 52- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister

Rank last year: 6

7. Rajnath Singh, 73- Union Minister for Defence

Rank last year: 7

8. Ashwini Vaishnaw, 54- Union Minister for Railways, Information & Broadcasting, Electronics & IT

Rank last year: 13

9. Rahul Gandhi, 54- Leader of the Opposition, Lok Sabha

Rank last year: 16

10. Mukesh Ambani, 67 – Chairman & Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited

Rank last year: 11

11. Gautam Adani, 62- Chairman, Adani Group

Rank last year: 10

12. Piyush Goyal, 60- Union Minister for Commerce & Industry

Rank last year: 12

13. Devendra Fadnavis, 54- Maharashtra Chief Minister

Rank last year: 50

14. N Chandrababu Naidu, 74- Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister

New

15. Nitin Gadkari, 67- Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways

New

16. Sanjay Malhotra, 57- RBI Governor

New

17. Bhupender Yadav, 55- Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change

Rank last year: 31

18. Mamata Banerjee, 70- West Bengal Chief Minister, Trinamool Congress Chief

Rank last year: 15

19. Hardeep Singh Puri, 73- Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas

Rank last year: 20

20. Siddaramaiah, 76- Karnataka Chief Minister

Rank last year: 22

21. Nitish Kumar, 74- Bihar Chief Minister

Rank last year: 24

22. Dharmendra Pradhan, 55- Union Minister for Education

Rank last year: 33

23. MK Stalin, 72- Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) Chief

Rank last year: 25

24. Jay Shah, 36- Chairman, International Cricket Council (ICC)

Rank last year: 35

25. N Chandrasekaran, 61- Chairman, Tata Group

Rank last year: 28

26. Nita Ambani, 60- Founder and Chairperson, Reliance Foundation

Rank last year: 26

27. General Upendra Dwivedi, 60- Chief of Army Staff

New

28. Anumula Revanth Reddy, 55- Telangana Chief Minister

Rank last year: 39

29. Shivraj Singh Chouhan, 66- Union Minister for Rural Development, Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare

New

30. Noel Naval Tata, 68- Chairman, Tata Trusts, Trent and Tata Investment Corporation

New

31. Himanta Biswa Sarma, 56- Assam Chief Minister

Rank last year: 14

32. Pushkar Singh Dhami, 49 – Uttarakhand Chief Minister

Rank last year: 61

 

33. Mallikarjun Kharge, 82- President, Indian National Congress; Leader of Opposition, Rajya Sabha

Rank last year: 36

34. Mansukh Mandaviya, 52- Union Minister for Labour and Employment, Youth Affairs and Sports

Rank last year: 23

35. Ajit Doval, 80- National Security Advisor

Rank last year: 17

36. Viswanathan Anand, 55- Chess Grandmaster

New

37 .Uday Kotak, 66- Founder and Director, Kotak Mahindra Bank

Rank last year: 41

38 .Nayab Singh Saini, 55

Haryana Chief Minister

New

39 .Manohar Lal Khattar, 70

Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs

Rank last year: 82

40 .Hemant Soren, 49

Chief Minister, Jharkhand

Rank last year: 93

41 .Pinarayi Vijayan, 79

Kerala Chief Minister

Rank last year: 49

42 .BL Santhosh, 58

National General Secretary (Organisation), BJP

New

43. Shaktikanta Das, 68

Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister

Rank last year: 19

44. Bhagwant Mann, 51

Punjab Chief Minister

Rank last year: 64

45. Sanjiv Khanna, 64

Chief Justice of India

Rank last year: 21

46. Omar Abdullah, 55

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister

New

47. Deepinder Goyal, 42

Founder & CEO, Zomato

New

48. Rohit Sharma, 37

Captain, Indian Cricket Team

Rank last year: 68

49. Rajiv Bajaj, 58

Managing Director, Bajaj Auto

Rank last year: 44

50. JP Nadda, 64

Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Chemicals & Fertilisers

Rank last year: 9

51. Eknath Shinde, 61

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister, Shiv Sena President

Rank last year: 48

52. Arvind Kejriwal, 56

Former Delhi Chief Minister; National Convenor, Aam Aadmi Party

Rank last year: 18

53. Tushar Mehta, 60

Solicitor General of India

Rank last year: 51

54. Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh, 70

Union Minister for Panchayati Raj; Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying

New

55. Sarbananda Sonowal, 62

Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways

New

56. Jyotiraditya Scindia, 54

Union Minister for Communications; Development of North Eastern Region

New

57. Ajit Pawar, 65

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister; President, Nationalist Congress Party

Rank last year: 76

58. Kiren Rijiju, 53

Union Minister for Minority Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs

New

59. Chirag Paswan, 42

Union Minister for Food Processing Industries

New

60. CR Paatil, 70

Union Minister for Jal Shakti

Rank last year: 67

61. Pema Khandu, 45

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister

New

62. Vishnu Deo Sai, 61

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister

Rank last year: 77

63. Pramod Sawant, 51

Goa Chief Minister

New

64. Bhupendra Patel, 62

Gujarat Chief Minister

Rank last year: 71

65. .Rekha Gupta, 50

Delhi Chief Minister

New

66. Mohan Yadav, 60

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister

Rank last year: 55

67. Bhajan Lal Sharma, 58

Rajasthan Chief Minister

Rank last year: 74

68. Sunil Bharti Mittal, 67

Chairperson, Bharti Enterprises

Rank last year: 88

69. Dr Prathap C Reddy, 92

Founder-Chairman, Apollo Hospitals

New

70. Aravind Srinivas, 30

Co-Founder & CEO, Perplexity

New

71. Ajay Kumar Bhalla, 64

Manipur Governor

New

72. Virat Kohli, 36

Cricketer

Rank last year: 38

73. Konidela Pawan Kalyan, 53

Andhra Pradesh Deputy CM; Actor

New

74. Vijay, 50

Tamil Superstar, Founder, Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam

New

75. TV Somanathan, 59

Cabinet Secretary, Government of India

Rank last year: 66

76. Nikhil Kamath, 38

Co-Founder & CFO, Zerodha

New

77. Sharad Pawar, 84

President, NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar)

Rank last year: 94

78. PK Mishra, 76

Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister

Rank last year: 52

79. Manoj Sinha, 65

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant-Governor

Rank last year: 53

80. Kiran Nadar, 74

Founder, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art

Rank last year: 57

81. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, 53

Congress MP, Wayanad

Rank last year: 62

82. Shashi Tharoor, 69

Congress MP, Thiruvananthapuram

Rank last year: 84

83. Jasprit Bumrah, 31

Cricketer

New

84. Tuhin Kanta Pandey, 59

Chairman, SEBI

New

85. DK Shivakumar, 62

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister

Rank last year: 72

86. Tejashwi Yadav, 35

Leader of Opposition, Bihar Assembly

Rank last year: 73

87. Akhilesh Yadav, 51

President, Samajwadi Party

Rank last year: 75

88. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, 57

Union Minister for Culture, Tourism

Rank last year: 70

89. Asaduddin Owaisi, 55

President, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen

Rank last year: 78

90. H D Kumaraswamy, 65

Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Steel

New

91. Kumar Mangalam Birla, 57

Chairperson, Aditya Birla Group

Rank last year: 85

92. Allu Arjun, 42

Actor

New

93. Ramdev, 59

Yoga Guru, Patanjali Yogpeeth

Rank last year: 86

94. Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, 61

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister

Rank last year: 90

95. V Narayanan, 60

Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

New

96. Karan Johar, 52

Filmmaker, Producer

Rank last year: 97

97. Shah Rukh Khan, 59

Actor, Producer, Entrepreneur

Rank last year: 27

98. Diljit Dosanjh, 41

Actor, Popstar

New

99. Amitabh Bachchan, 82

Actor

Rank last year: 99

100. Alia Bhatt, 32

Actor, Producer

Rank last year: 79

Check if your favourite is amongst the list of IE India’s most powerful 2025.

 

Also Read:Must watch Indian series on Netflix