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.
Covid-19 crisis: Doval stepped in to persuade Markaz leaders to vacate premises
NEW DELHI: It required an intervention from National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on 28 March to get the leaders of the south Delhi-based mosque, Nizamuddin Markaz, to agree to vacate the premises, now considered a hotspot of covid-19.
Tabligh-e-Jamaat's Markaz in Delhi's Nizamuddin had as many as 1,700 delegates from world over in attendance who had stayed put on the premises after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown last week to contain the spread of the disease, defying social distancing norms.
Area sub-divisional magistrate and the police had sent multiple requests to Markaz officials asking them to vacate but to no avail.
United States
|
Cases: 46 252 513
Deaths: 750 423
Recovered: 0
|
India
|
Cases: 34 321 025
Deaths: 459 652
Recovered: 0
|
Brazil
|
Cases: 21 835 785
Deaths: 608 235
Recovered: 0
|
United Kingdom
|
Cases: 9 215 683
Deaths: 141 607
Recovered: 0
|
Russia
|
Cases: 8 494 589
Deaths: 237 619
Recovered: 0
|