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.
Modi interacts with CMs on covid crisis, most favour lockdown extension in affected areas
NEW DELHI : India will continue with a calibrated approach to put its battered economy back on track and restore supply chains which have been ravaged by the covid-19 pandemic and consequent lockdown.
While speaking to the state chief ministers on Monday through video conference, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the “efforts of states should be directed towards converting the red zones into orange and thereafter to green zones." The high level meeting discussed lives and livelihood issues and extension of the lockdown in red zones among other things.
This comes in the backdrop of the 40-day-long nationwide lockdown nearing its completion. The chief ministers of Bihar, Odisha, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram,
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