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: Brazil President Jair Bolsanoro, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, invoked the Hindu epic - the Ramayana, besides Christianity's central figure Jesus Christ, requesting Modi to allow the export of anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, which can be used to treat coronavirus (covid-19) patients.
Last weekend, Bolsanoro had sought the supply of the drug, that is being touted as a cure for the deadly virus, over a phone call with the Indian minister.
Brazil has over 14,000 cases and has so far recorded 688 deaths – the highest in South America. References to both Ramayana and Christ were made against the backdrop of the rapid spread of covid-19 across the world.