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: State governments in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh (UP) have started special buses for migrants who were stuck in the national capital due to the lockdown and were instead walking hundreds of kilometres to reach home.
The central government has asked the highway authorities and toll operators to help out migrants who are walking back. To curtail the spread of Covid-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced a three-week nationwide lockdown in which only essential services are being allowed to function.
The move had a direct impact on the employment of those in the informal sector. With state transport buses and trains not in service until 15 April, migrants, most of them from Bihar and UP, began to take the long walk back