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Narendra Modi: India's Prime Minister

Narendra Modi is the current Prime Minister of India, elected in 2014. He previously served as Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the right-wing Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. As Chief Minister, his administration was considered complicit in the 2002 Gujarat riots.

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Narendra Modi: India's Prime Minister

Narendra Modi is the current Prime Minister of India, elected in 2014. He previously served as Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the right-wing Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. As Chief Minister, his administration was considered complicit in the 2002 Gujarat riots.

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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
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.
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.
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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.

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