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.
Blame it on the virus, it’s the largest lockdown in history
coronavirus, coronavirus pandemic, social distancing, india lockdown, fight against coronavirus, COVID-19, Narendra Modi, quarantine, isolation, coronavirus in India, coronavirus transmission, health For the past four days, Indians used to the blare of horns, the drone of engines and the clamour of busy streets are waking up to silence, or more unusually, birdsong.
On Tuesday night, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day ‘total lockdown’, prompting tweets and comments about this being the largest quarantine in human history.
Most of India’s 1.3 billion people are staying home, joining millions from China, Italy, France and the UK as governments try to slow the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.
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