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.
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) on Monday appealed to prime minister Narendra Modi to extend the lockdown by another one or two weeks, to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus (covid-19).
KCR stated that this was the only solution to curb the virus’ spread in the state. He added that the tests on all those who attended the congregation at the Markaz Nizamuddin in Delhi last month, will be done by Thursday. “I am for the lockdown of the country after 15 April.
We can recover economy later. In the given situation, with India’s poor health infrastructure and with a big work force, we have no other weapon.