The Election Commission of India is likely to appoint Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan and India’s cricket vice-captain Virat Kohli as ‘national icons’, to help encourage more people to vote in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
While Aamir has a huge following even in the grass-root levels of India, Kohli is India’s most promising cricket touted to replace Mahendra Singh Dhoni as the captain of the cricket team.
Aamir Khan and Virat Kohli
Aamir and Kohli are expected to join other ‘national icons’ like ex-President A.P.J Abdul Kalam, Olympic medalist Mary Kom, badminton player Saina Nehwal and India’s cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
“It is for the first time that there would be six national icons to boost voter participation,” an official said.
“Over two crore first-time voters will be eligible to exercise their right to franchise in this election. The number of young voters will also be large. The national icons have a special appeal among the youth” the official said.
Over 814 million people will be eligible to vote in the 2014 General elections, making it the biggest Lok Sabha polls — and the biggest democratic parliamentary elections anywhere in the world.
Yes both are real ‘national icons’
Specialy aamir nobody can take his place, love you aamir you are best.
And kohli 18century in just 120matches, its unbelievable.
Aamir is the real hero,he should b d president of this country #AamirBest
Aamir, truly is a national icon.
sachin tendulkar is the biggest icon of india.
Now his fans wil say aamir is doing it for free… btw virat is a good player but hez not capable enough to lead the team.. It was reflected in the recently concluded asia cup. Dhoni shd remain captain till 2016 worldcup
Virat is a superb player,but he is’nt humble a bit,Always abuses umpires and opponent players using BC,MC etc…
M.S Dhoni should have been chosen.
Aamir deserves ‘National icon’ tag..
@Babaji, Dhoni is already a national icon. Read the article again.
srk and sachin are the national icons
Both Aamir and Virat are role models for the youth.
great
i personally think the national icon should be srk and dhoni because both of them didn’t belong to cricket or filmy families though nothing against aamir and kholi
Aamir khan is truly a great national icon.Very inspiring personality.
@rahul u r ri8 but srk and sachin are not just national icons…. they are international icons which iz a dream for “two and a half feet” thief of dhoom3 and kohli.lol
@Babaji ki lungi You cant read it seems or maybe you just as stupid as your silly name suggests but Dhoni just for the record is ALREADY a National Icon….!
Its great, both are deserving. @babaji virat is superb player,and all his aggression is on the field but in real life he is not involved in any controversial behaviour and the guy is supremely talented & had won many matches for India specially on chasing. That’s the main thing we required from him, yes Dhoni should be first choice among recent players but he already honoured for this.
Where is sachin the biggest icon of india
aamir..national icon?? haaaaahahaaaaaaaaaa…icons are believed to be there always with people, inspire people, multitaskers, nation builders in their own field. where was this aamir all these years after 3 idiots??recognise people who are there with fellowmen all the time, not on santa claus. virat kohli is fine. he has made india proud on several occasions.
Star Ranking Worldwide for Mar 2014
#NameReleasesIndiaOverseasWorldwideChange
1 Salman Khan51071901161-64.4
2 Aamir Khan296018411440
3 Shahrukh Khan48781781056-32
4 Ranbir Kapoor438018398-2.4
5 Hrithik Roshan328538323-9.6
6 Ranveer Singh4-119-19-138+58.2
7 Saif Ali Khan6-255-52-307+12.8
8 Ajay Devgn7-230-97-327+28.4
9 Akshay Kumar10-407-118-525+14.6
10 John Abraham7-448-95-543+6.6
11 Shahid Kapoor4-486-62-548+16.6
12 Emraan Hashmi6-514-154-668+23.8
Very nyc
its gud that lykes of amir called youth icon they really inspires youngsters that never lose hope as after 20 years struggle he is successfull now…
What can we say 4 kohli just superb wish he have continuous success like sachin….
I am a chinese girl ,
Aamir, truly is a national icon,really admire him very much,he has the unique charm of personality!
I support Amirkhan!