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: Economic shutdown will raise death toll, Rahul Gandhi tells Modi
NEW DELHI: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Sunday said while Covid-19 was a global pandemic, India’s conditions were unique given the dependence of a large population on daily wages.
The consequences of a "complete economic shutdown" will "disastrously amplify" death toll arising out of the outbreak of the pandemic. “A complete lockdown and the resulting shutdown of our economic engine will almost certainly ensure the millions of unemployed youth rush back to their villages, increasing the risk of infecting their parents, grandparents and the elderly population.
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