Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister outside of the Indian National Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority and the second to complete five years in office after Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
In normal times, with the start of spring, Assam would have been abuzz with preparations for the Rongali Bihu, the New Year festival As a transit for other north-eastern states, and with 1.5-2 million of its people working across the country, Assam was worried about covid-19 from the very beginning.
Thus, the state had not only started preparing for the worst by setting up exclusive hospitals and quarantine facilities, but had also imposed a total lockdown at least six hours before prime minister Narendra Modi had called for a 21-day nationwide lockdown.
The identification of a US tourist in Bhutan as a covid-19 positive case added to the early worry, since he had visited many places in Assam.