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.
Manipur CM raises racism issue in meeting with Modi
New Delhi: With cases of racism against people from India’s north eastern region increasing in the backdrop of the coronavirus outbreak, which began in China, Manipur’s chief minister N.
Biren Singh on Saturday raised the issue of racial discrimination during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s video conference with the state chief ministers.
On 22 March, a man in Delhi allegedly spat on a girl from Manipur and called her “corona". The man had been arrested. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal had condemned the incident and asked the Delhi Police to take strict action against the offender.
Since then similar incidents have been reported from Mumbai and Hyderabad where complaints have been filed against citizens for spitting and stopping
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