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: Populism's moment of reckoning
A backlash against elites brought to power populist rulers who disregard expertise. Will the pandemic now provoke a backlash against the backlash?
On 25 March, a day after announcing the lockdown, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed residents of his Lok Sabha constituency, Varanasi.
He used the metaphor of combat to describe the effort against covid-19, as many world leaders have done. “The Mahabharat war was won in 18 days," he said. “The war the entire nation is now fighting against corona is going to last for 21 days.
We will attempt to win this war in 21 days". Why would he think such a quick victory was possible, when China’s Hubei province and its capital Wuhan, ground zero for the virus, were at that moment extricating themselves
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