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.
NEW DELHI : India on Thursday rebuffed an offer from Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan to disburse cash to Indians who were reportedly struggling to make ends meet due to the coronavirus lockdown.Rejecting Khan’s offer, Indian foreign ministry spokesman Anurag Srivastava said that “It would be better for them to remember that India has a stimulus package, which is as large as Pakistan's annual GDP." The reference was to the rs 20 lakh crore stimulus package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an address to the nation last month.
The details were later outlined by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and had measures to encourage small, medium and micro industries and farmers besides the enlargement of a safety net for.