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's address on Covid-19 lockdown draws 197 million TV viewers
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of complete lockdown across India in the wake of the coronavirus scare this week had 197 million viewers glued to their television screens across 201 channels, according to data from the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC).
BARC is the country’s television viewership monitoring agency. Tuesday's pan-India lockdown announcement clocked in more viewers than the janata curfew announcement on 19 March (83 million viewers across 19 channels), Modi’s address on Article 370 in August (65 million viewers across 163 channels), the bringing in of demonetization in November 2016 (57 million viewers across 114 channels) and the IPL (Indian Premier League) finals that had notched up 133
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