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.
NEW DELHI: State chief ministers, during their virtual meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, demanded a fiscal stimulus package from the Centre and more financing options to tide over the financial crunch while they fight the covid-19 outbreak. “RBI reduces the repo rate to 4.4% but the coupon rate for 15-year Kerala SLR bonds bid by the banks is 8.96%.
It is high time India Government follow the course adopted by all major economies for stimulus- borrow directly from the Central Bank and for the time ignore FRBM rules," Kerala finance minister Thomas Isaac tweeted.
West Bengal demanded that the Centre should announce a stimulus package of 6% of GDP and let industrialists in the state contribute to the chief minister’s