WHO IS NARENDRA MODI ?
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Shri Narendra Damodardas Modi is the Prime Minister of
India and he took oath as India’s Prime Minister on 26th
May 2014 after leading the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
to a decisive victory in the 2014 Parliamentary Elections.
He was the 14th and current Chief Minister of Gujarat. He
resigned to take up the office of the Prime Minister of
India.
Shri Narendra Modi was a key strategist for the BJP in the
successful 1995 and 1998 Gujarat State Election
Campaigns, and was a major campaign figure in the 2009
Parliamentary Elections. He first became the Chief
Minister of Gujarat in October 2001 after the resignation of
his predecessor, Shri Keshubhai Patel, and following the
defeat of BJP in the by-elections. In July 2007, he became
the longest-serving Chief Minister in Gujarat's history, at
which point he had been in power for 2,063 days
continuously. He is currently serving his fourth consecutive
term as the Chief Minister.
Shri Narendra Modi is a member of the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and is described as a Hindu
nationalist by media, scholars and himself.
He is an important figure both within India and outside the
country as his administration has been the point at issue
for the incidents surrounding the 2002 Gujarat riots.
He has been praised for his economic policies, which are
credited with creating an environment for a high rate of
economic growth in Gujarat.
However, his administration has also been a subject matter
of discussion to make a significant positive impact upon the
human development of the State.
Narendra Modi childhood and education:
Shri Narendra Modi was born on 17 September 1950 to afamily of Grocers belonging to the backward Ghanchi
community, in Vadnagar in Mehsana district of what was
then Bombay Presidency (present-day Gujarat), India. He
was the third of six children born to Shri Damodardas
Mulchand Modi and his wife, Heeraben.
He helped his father sell tea at Vadnagar Railway Station.
As a child and as a teenager, he ran a tea stall with his
brother near a bus terminus.
Little is known of the two years that Shri Narendra Modi
spent travelling, probably in the Himalayas, and he
resumed selling tea upon his return. He then worked in the
Staff Canteen of Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation
until he became a full–time pracharak of the RSS in 1970.
He had been involved with the RSS as a volunteer from the
age of eight and had come into contact with Shri Vasant
Gajendragadkar and Shri Nathalal Jaghda, leaders of the
Jan Sangh who later founded the BJP's Gujarat State Unit.
After Shri Narendra Modi had received some RSS training
in Nagpur, which was a prerequisite for taking up an
official position in the Sangh Parivar, he was given charge
of Sangh's student wing, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi
Parishad, in Gujarat.
Shri Narendra Modi organised agitations and covert
distribution of Sangh's pamphlets during the Emergency.
Shri Narendra Modi graduated with an Extramural Degree
through Distance Education in Political Science from Delhi
University. Shri Narendra Modi remained a pracharak in
the RSS while he completed his Master's Degree in Political
Science from Gujarat University.
Narendra POLITICAL CAREER:
Shri Narendra Modi formally joined the RSS after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. In 1975, the then Prime Minister of
India, Smt. Indira Gandhi declared a State of Emergency
and jailed political opponents. Shri Narendra Modi went
underground in Gujarat, occasionally disguised, and
printed and sent booklets against the Central Government
to Delhi. He also participated in the movement against the
Emergency under Shri Jayaprakash Narayan.
The RSS assigned Shri Narendra Modi to the BJP in 1985.
While Shri Shankarsingh Vaghela and Shri Keshubhai
Patel were the established names in the Gujarat BJP at
that time, Shri Narendra Modi rose to prominence after
organising Shri Murli Manohar Joshi's Kanyakumari-
Srinagar Ekta yatra in 1991. In 1988, Shri Narendra Modi
was elected as the Organizing Secretary of BJP's Gujarat
unit.
In November 1995, Shri Narendra Modi was elected
National Secretary of BJP and was transferred to New
Delhi where he was assigned responsibility for the Party's
activities in Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.
Shri Narendra Modi was promoted to the post of General
Secretary (Organisation) of the BJP in May 1998. While on
the Selection Committee for the 1998 Assembly Elections in
Gujarat, Shri Narendra Modi favoured supporters of Shri
Keshubhai Patel over those loyal to Shri Vaghela, in an
attempt to put an end to the factional divisions within the
Party. His strategies were credited as being key to winning
the 1998 elections.
CHIEF MINISTER OF GUJARAT
In 2001, Shri Keshubhai Patel's health was failing, and the
BJP had lost seats in the by-elections. Shri L. K. Advani, a Senior Leader of the
BJP, did not want to ostracise Shri Patel and was worried
about Shri Narendra Modi's lack of experience in
governance. Shri Narendra Modi declined an offer to be
Patel's Deputy Chief Minister, informing Shri Advani and
Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee that he was "going to be fully
responsible for Gujarat or not at all", and on 7 October
2001, Shri Narendra Modi was appointed the Chief
Minister of Gujarat, with the responsibility of preparing
the BJP for elections in December 2002. As the Chief
Minister, Shri Narendra Modi's ideas of governance
revolved around privatisation and small Government.
PERSONALITY AND IMAGE
Shri Narendra Modi is a vegetarian. He has a frugal
lifestyle with a personal staff of three. He is a workaholic
and an introvert. He writes poems in Gujarati. As a
speaker, he is known as a crowd-puller.
In the critical opinion of Somini Sengupta, writing for the
New York Times in a 2009 article on the Supreme Court's
ordering of an investigation into Modi's role in the 2002
Gujarat riots, "Shri Narendra Modi has assiduously sought
to reinvent himself from a scruffy mascot of Hindu
nationalism to a decisive corporate-style administrator".
Shri Narendra Modi has been labelled by the media and
some articles in peer-reviewed journals as a controversial,
polarising, and divisive figure, but British economist Jim
O'Neill, author of the BRIC report, wrote on his blog that
Shri Narendra Modi is "good on economics", one of the
things that "India desperately needs in a leader".
LEADERSHIP
In March 2013, Shri Narendra Modi was appointed to the
BJP Parliamentary Board, the Party's highest decisionmaking
body, and was chosen to be chairman of the Party's
Central Election Campaign Committee. On 10 June 2013,
Shri Narendra Modi was selected to head the poll campaign
for the elections at the national level executive meeting of
BJP in Goa.
A fortnight after he was anointed as BJP's Prime
Ministerial candidate, Shri Narendra Modi on Sunday
relinquished the post of election campaign committee chief
to which Party President Shri Rajnath Singh was
appointed.
QUALITIES OF SHRI NARENDRA MODI
Quality Number 1 : Popularity at its Peak
Nobody can explain what exactly makes him so popular in
India as well as in many countries of the world. At the
same time, he is widely known as a person who wears his
heart on his sleeves.
Quality Number 2 : Hard Labour and Hard Work
After returning from the Himalayas, he ran a tea stall with
his brother at the State Transport Office in Ahmedabad. He
sold tea for many years. That was the time when he learnt
what hardship really meant. It made him more determined
and resolute in his approach towards life.
Quality Number 3 : Spending Life as a Sanyasi
Shri Narendra Modi was born in an OBC family of grocers
in Vadnagar of Gujarat. He wanted to become a Sanyasi
when he was a child. In fact, he was always fascinated with
Sadhus, different forms of worship and meditation.
Quality Number 4 : Writer and Poet
He is a prolific writer and poet. He writes in Gujarati
language and his favourite topics include life and teachings
of Hindutva icons. He is a big fan of Swami Vivekananda.
His most recent election campaign was christened as
‘Vivekanand Yuva Vikas Yatra’.
Quality Number 5 : Quick Decision Maker
While the country will take its time to make up its mind,
Shri Narendra Modi has shown that he is a man in a hurry
and will not leave any stone unturned to achieve his dream
envisaged by him during and explained during his election
caimpaigns.
Quality Number 6 : Love for his Janmabhoomi
Vadnagar, an ancient town that’s almost 2,500 years old, is
Shri Narendra Damordas Mulchand Modi’s birthplace.
Indians strongly identify themselves with their
Janmabhoomi, and he is no different. He likes the
Hatkeswar Mahadeo temple, built in the 15th century, in his
home town. His birthplace is unique in that it saw both
Hinduism and Buddhism flourish. It is also a highly
cultured town that is famous for singer-duo Tana and Riri
who stumped none other than the legendary Tansen in the
Mughal King Akbar’s Durbar.
Quality Number 7 : Knows Cooking
His favourite food is Bhakhri (crispy rotis) and Khichdi
made in Gujarati style. He knows as to how to cook
vegetarian food.
Quality Number 8 : Expert in Time Management
He has won so far because he knows the usefulness and
uselessness of everyone around him. He recognises time
and its value. He strikes when it is his time and bends
otherwise.
CHAI PE CHARCHA
Chai Pe Charcha is an innovative campaign organaised by
the BJP along with the Citizens for Accountable
Governance. In this campaign, the BJP's Prime Ministerial
Candidate for 2014 General Elections, Shri Narendra Modi,
interacted with people at a tea stall in the predetermined
places using a combination of satellite, DTH, internet and
mobile.
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