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: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to consider giving advance wages to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) workers hit by the nationwide lockdown.
This is the second such letter that Gandhi has written to Modi in the last one week urging the union government to take steps to safeguard daily wage laborers. “Social distancing norms have rendered all works unfeasible under lockdown.
Furthermore even after the work commences, MGNREGA workers have to wait for more than a month to receive wages," Gandhi said in the letter dated Wednesday. “Given the urgency of providing economic support to the rural poor, due to lost wages, the government may