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.
SRINAGAR – An alliance of pro-India political parties in Kashmir has won a majority of seats in local elections, the first since New Delhi revoked the disputed region’s semiautonomous status and took direct control last year.The alliance, which is fiercely opposed to the Indian government’s action and favors self-governance, won 112 out of a total of 280 seats in District Development Council elections, which were held in a staggered eight-phase process from Nov.
28 through Dec. 19.Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, won 74 seats. Independent candidates won 49 seats.The BJP has a very small base in the Kashmir Valley, the heart of the decades-old anti-India insurgency where it got only three.