Narendra Modi, in full Narendra Damodardas Modi, (born September 17, 1950, Vadnagar, India), Indian politician and government official who rose to become a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is a dynamic, determined, and dedicated Prime Minister of India who was born on 17 September 1950 at Vadnagar, India. On 30 May 2019, he was sworn in as India's Prime Minister marking the start of his second term in office. He is also the longest-serving Chief Minister of Gujarat (October 2001 to May 2014). He is a personality of motivation who rose from a poverty-stricken tea-selling boy to a development-oriented leader.
At the 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 was declared by 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.
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. A Supreme Court of India-appointed Special Investigation Team found no evidence to initiate prosecution proceedings against Modi personally.His policies as chief minister—credited with encouraging economic growth—have received praise.
He has proved that success has nothing to do with caste, creed, or where a person belongs to. He is the first Prime Minister of India whose mother was alive when he took office. In the Lok Sabha, he represents the Varanasi constituency and is considered a master strategist for his party. Since 2014, he is the current Prime Minister of India and prior to it, he had served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat state from 2001 to 2014. In 2014 he led his party to victory in elections to the Lok Sabha (lower chamber of the Indian parliament), after which he was sworn in as prime minister of India.In Lok Sabha Election 2019, Narendra Modi has won by around 4.79 Lac votes against Shalini Yadav, Samajwadi Party. His Swearing-in ceremony is organised on 30th May, 2019 for the second term as a Prime Minister of India. He is the first BJP leader who has been elected for a second term after the completion of his five-year tenure.
Prior to that he had served (2001–14) as chief minister (head of government) of Gujarat state in western India.
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 the lower house of India's parliament. He is also the longest serving prime minister from a non-Congress party.
Modi was raised in a small town in northern Gujarat, and he completed an M.A. degree in political science from Gujarat University in Ahmadabad. He joined the pro-Hindu Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) organization in the early 1970s and set up a unit of the RSS’s students’ wing, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, in his area. Modi rose steadily in the RSS hierarchy, and his association with the organization significantly benefited his subsequent political career.
He is a ray of hope in the lives of billions of Indians and one of the most popular leaders who mostly focuses on development. Even the slogan of our PM Narendra Modi "Main Bhi Chowkidar" focuses on the dignity of labour and aims to take the support of the working class. He said this slogan because he felt that he is also standing firm and doing his work as the nation's 'chowkidar'. Further, he emphasised that every Indian who is fighting for corruption, dirt, social evils, etc. for the progress of India is also a 'Chowkidar. This way slogan 'Main bhi chowkidar' went viral.
In September 2016, the Indian Army launched surgical strikes against terrorist camps in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. The strike on September 28, 2016, was in response to an attack by Pakistan-based terrorists on an army base in Kashmir’s Uri on September 18 in which 19 soldiers were killed.
Since then, the government has been observing September 29 as "Surgical Strike Day".
In an interview to news agency ANI, Prime Minister Narendra Modi revealed the details of the military action saying that the date of the attack was changed twice, keeping in mind the safety and security of the troops.
The Prime Minister said the surgical strikes were planned as there was a “rage” building up within him as well as the Army after soldiers were killed in the terror attack in Uri.
PM Modi also said that he ordered the troops to not think about the success or failure and be back "before sunrise".
How the surgical strike was carried out
In September 2016, terrorists of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed entered the Army camp in Uri near the Line of Control and killed 20 soldiers in the attack.
In retaliation, the Indian Army troops including the commandos from various units of the Para (Special Forces) units deployed in Jammu and Kashmir carried out raids across the border on multiple targets.
All these targets were launch pads for terrorists for infiltrating into Jammu and Kashmir for carrying out attacks against military and civilian targets.
PM Modi said that while talking to the Army, he realised that they wanted justice for their martyred soldiers and the government gave them the “free hand” to plan and execute the surgical strikes.
The surgical strike was hailed by the people of the country as well as the armed forces, with defence minister Rajnath Singh saying that it gave a clear message to the world that "we can kill terrorists on this side as well as by crossing the border if the need arises".
In the six years as prime minister, Narendra Modi is credited to have introduced some long-awaited reforms in the country. However, with four years still remaining in his second term, his government faces a plethora of challenges as well.
First, we list out five of PM Modi's achievements during the past six years.
GOODS AND SERVICES TAX
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) was in the pipeline for 17 years before it became a major tax reform in 2017. For long, India was seen as a non-friendly country for business owing to its complicated tax laws.
The GST subsumed 17 existing indirect taxes to make compliance of taxation laws by the business world simple. The rollout of GST through a special session of Parliament three years ago remains a major highlight of the Modi government.
INSOLVENCY AND BANKRUPTCY CODE
The link between failed businesses and the consequent banking ailment was long seen as a problem area for economy growth and policy making. The Modi government enacted the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) law in 2016. The law was amended for the second time earlier this year to make it more attuned to ground realities.
It is described as the silver bullet to tackle India's chronic problem of non-performing assets. Banks have begun to recover debts that were earlier thought to be irretrievable.
SWACHH BHARAT
Though it has its origin in the Nirmal Gram mission -- under Raghuvansh Prasad Singh-led rural development ministry -- of the Manmohan Singh government, the Swachh Bharat campaign is one of the big socio-political achievements of the Modi government.
PM Modi's personal push in his speeches from the ramparts of the Red Fort and televised events has given the Swachh Bharat campaign a new dimension. He is the first prime minister to have successfully conveyed to the public that cleanliness has a direct correlation with their health status and economic well-being.
The toilet-construction programme under the Swachh Bharat campaign to make India an open-defecation free (ODF) country played a significant part in the Modi government being voted back to power with a greater majority.
CLEANER, HEALTHIER KITCHEN
Another highlight of the government in the last six years and the one that played an equal political role -- besides the toilet scheme -- in getting Narendra Modi back to the PMO is free distribution of the LPG cylinders.
It was done through the Ujjwala Yojana, under which women in villages get free one LPG cylinder connection per household. The scheme has been so popular that at the end of the last fiscal, it overshot its target of 8 crore LPG connection.
Official data show that Ujjwala Yojana accounts for over 70 per cent growth in total domestic LPG connections in the country.
POLITICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
The Modi government fulfilled some long-standing demands of the BJP, the party that leads the NDA government at the Centre. These include revoking the special status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370, construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya -- PM Modi led the groundbreaking ceremony following a Supreme Court ruling, abolition of triple talaq -- a step seen largely forwarding the goal of bringing in a uniform civil code.
Yet, PM Modi faces a host of challenges for the remaining four years of his second tenure in the PMO.
PM Modi came to the power in 2014 on the promise of "achchhe din" (better days ahead). The early years of his tenure saw India clocking high growth in its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). But for the past two years or more, the economy has been facing a slowdown.
The economic slowdown turned into the first contraction in several decades due to the Covid-19 situation. The Modi government needs money to fund its health and social welfare programmes. That money can only come from revenue or taxes deposited by businesses.
The Covid-19 lockdown shut all businesses and threw people out of their jobs. Now, the government has allowed opening of almost all business activities. But there are problems of labour, and where labour is available, the cases of Covid-19 are shooting up.
It is a Catch-22 situation for the Modi government. It needs people to work and get businesses running to boost the economy, while still wanting people to stay home and help reverse the Covid-19 curve.
In such a poor global conditions whether it is pandemic or economy,Modi government is putting all its effort to come out from this situation. A great and dedicated leader can take out India from such situations and to a great extent he has successfully done it.
Other big nations are also surprised of Modi's disaster management abilities.
Under the leadership of PM Modi India is heading towards a positive direction and there is no doubt that Modi will take India to a new height and India will emerge as a global power very soon.
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