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 : The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological parent of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) broke its silence on the nationwide lockdown for the first time and backed the efforts of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in handling the coronavirus pandemic.
Speaking to members of RSS through video conferencing, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said that there was a need to become self-reliant and efforts should be made to indigenously produced goods. "We have to come up with our new model of development which makes us self-reliant.
As much as possible use indigenous goods and try to live without using imported items," said Bhagwat who was speaking from Nagpur.