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.
The ordinance would allow farmers to sell their produce directly to anyone BENGALURU : Karnataka chief minister B.S.Yediyurappa-led state government on Thursday took the ordinance route to bring in reforms to the Agricultural Produce Marketing (APMC) that removes restrictions on where the farmer would be able to sell his produce and get better prices by eliminating the middlemen.
J.C.Madhuswamy, the state minister for law and parliamentary affairs said that this ordinance would allow farmers to sell their produce directly to anyone.
The move is part of the center's initiative to loosen the grip of APMC's and an extension of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's assurance to double farmers income by 2022, Madhuswamy said. "This has been done