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 lockdown necessary but implementation unplanned, says Sonia Gandhi
NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday said the 21-day countrywide lockdown was necessary to contain the spread of novel coronavirus outbreak, but the implementation of the measure by the Union government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been unplanned.
Gandhi has been highlighting that the Centre needs to take more steps to make the lockdown easier for migrant labourers, the poor of the country, farmers and the middle class. “The 21-day national lockdown may have been necessary but the unplanned manner in which it has been implemented has caused chaos and pain in the lives of millions of migrant workers all over India.It has been heart-breaking to see lakhs of people walking for hundreds of kilometres towards
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