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 Monday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging the union government to consider extending the free foodgrain scheme for three more months till September.
Gandhi said the step, along with distribution of temporary ration cards, is necessitated because the nearly three-month long lockdown imposed to control the spread of coronavirus pandemic has had adverse impact on livelihoods.Gandhi’s comments are significant because they come just a day ahead of the meeting of party’s top decision making body – Congress Working Committee (CWC) – which is expected to take up two key issues of the fallout of pandemic and the border standoff in Ladakh last week, which resulted in clashes between.