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Narendra Modi | |||
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.jpg) Official portrait, 2020 | |||
| 14th Prime Minister of India | |||
| Assumed office 26 May 2014 | |||
| President | Pranab Mukherjee Ram Nath Kovind | ||
| Vice President | Mohammad Hamid Ansari Venkaiah Naidu | ||
| Preceded by | Manmohan Singh | ||
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| Leader of the House, Lok Sabha | |||
| Assumed office 26 May 2014 | |||
| Preceded by | Sushilkumar Shinde | ||
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |||
| Assumed office 5 June 2014 | |||
| Preceded by | Murli Manohar Joshi | ||
| Constituency | Varanasi | ||
| 14th Chief Minister of Gujarat | |||
| In office 7 October 2001 – 22 May 2014 | |||
| Governor | |||
| Preceded by | Keshubhai Patel | ||
| Succeeded by | Anandiben Patel | ||
| Member of Gujarat Legislative Assembly | |||
| In office 15 December 2002 – 16 May 2014 | |||
| Preceded by | Kamlesh Patel | ||
| Succeeded by | Suresh Patel | ||
| Constituency | Maninagar | ||
| In office 24 February 2002 – 19 July 2002 | |||
| Preceded by | Vajubhai Vala | ||
| Succeeded by | Vajubhai Vala | ||
| Constituency | Rajkot II | ||
| Personal details | |||
| Born | Narendra Damodardas Modi 17 September 1950 Vadnagar, Bombay State, India (present-day Gujarat) | ||
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| Other political affiliations | National Democratic Alliance | ||
| Spouse(s) | Jashodaben Modi (m. 1968; estranged)[1] | ||
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| Residence | 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, New Delhi, Delhi, India [fn 1] | ||
| Alma mater | |||
| Awards | List of state honours | ||
| Signature | .svg) | ||
| Website | Official website Government website | ||
| Nickname(s) | see article | ||
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Narendra Damodardas Modi (Gujarati: [ˈnəɾendɾə dɑmodəɾˈdɑs ˈmodiː] (
listen); born 17 September 1950)[a] is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current prime minister of India since 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament from Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister to have been born after India's independence in 1947 and the second prime minister not belonging to the Indian National Congress to have won two consecutive majorities in the Lok Sabha, or lower house of Indian of parliament.
Born and raised in Vadnagar, a small town in northeastern Gujarat, Modi completed his secondary education there. He was introduced to the RSS at age eight. He has drawn attention to having to work as a child in his father's tea stall on the Vadnagar railway station platform, a description that has not been reliably corroborated. At age 18, Modi was married to Jashodaben Chimanlal Modi, whom he abandoned soon after. He left his parental home where she had come to live. He first publicly acknowledged her as his wife more than four decades later when required to do so by Indian law, but has made no contact with her since. Modi has asserted he had travelled in northern India for two years after leaving his parental home, visiting a number of religious centres, but few details of his travels have emerged. Upon his return to Gujarat in 1971, he became a full-time worker for the RSS. After the state of emergency declared by Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1975, Modi went into hiding. The RSS assigned him to the BJP in 1985 and he held several positions within the party hierarchy until 2001, rising to the rank of general secretary.[b]
Modi was appointed Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2001 due to Keshubhai Patel's failing health and poor public image following the earthquake in Bhuj. Modi was elected to the legislative assembly soon after. His administration has been considered complicit in the 2002 Gujarat riots in which 1044 people were killed, three-quarters of whom were Muslim,[c] or otherwise criticised for its management of the crisis. The Supreme Court remarked that Narendra Modi was like a Modern-day Nero, looking the other way as innocent women and children were burning.[10] A Supreme Court of India-appointed Special Investigation Team found no evidence to initiate prosecution proceedings against Modi personally.[d] While his policies as chief minister—credited with encouraging economic growth—have received praise, his administration has been criticised for failing to significantly improve health, poverty and education indices in the state.[e]
Modi led the BJP in the 2014 general election which gave the party a majority in the Indian lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha, the first time for any single party since 1984. Modi's administration has tried to raise foreign direct investment in the Indian economy and reduced spending on healthcare and social welfare programmes. Modi has attempted to improve efficiency in the bureaucracy; he has centralised power by abolishing the Planning Commission. He began a high-profile sanitation campaign, initiated a controversial demonetisation of high-denomination banknotes and weakened or abolished environmental and labour laws.
Under Modi's tenure, India has experienced democratic backsliding.[13][14][f] Following his party's victory in the 2019 general election, his administration revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. His administration also introduced the Citizenship Amendment Act, which resulted in widespread protests across the country. Described as engineering a political realignment towards right-wing politics, Modi remains a figure of controversy domestically and internationally over his Hindu nationalist beliefs and his handling of the 2002 Gujarat riots, cited as evidence of an exclusionary social agenda.
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