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.
India may have a decentralised lockdown strategy ahead
New Delhi: Hinting at a decentralised strategy ahead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed India’s lockdown playbook with state chief ministers on Saturday that may involve dividing areas into green, orange and red zones.
Modi had earlier made it clear that lockdown cannot be lifted across the country in one go. The number of hotspots, or infection clusters, has swollen to 284 across the country, sparking a containment strategy through strict enforcement of restrictions on movement in these areas.
With the chief ministers of Kerala, West Bengal, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Manipur and Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir’s governor making a case for the extension of lockdown, there is a need for a decentralised response given
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