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: PM Modi to interact with CMs via video conference on 27 April
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for a meeting with the state chief ministers Amid the ongoing lockdown in India due to the novel coronavirus outbreak in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for a meeting with the state chief ministers via video conferencing on 27 April 2020, reported ANI.
The lockdown was extended from 14 April to 3 May, 2020 to combat the spread of Covid-19. In addition to that, Telangana became the first state to extend the lockdown further to 7 May, 2020.
In a fight to curb the spread of Covid-19 infections, the governement has taken a number of steps and issues guidelines since the lockdown began.
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