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.
Opinion | Agenda for this week: test, test, test for safety
The success of the second phase of India’s lockdown depends on rigorous coronavirus testing so that the economy can gradually be reopened.
It’s vital for us to get this right In his address to the nation on Tuesday morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked citizens for their sacrifices in the fight against covid-19, justified India’s 21-day lockdown for the lives it had saved, and announced an extension of it for 19 more days, till 3 May.
While Modi said curbs would be tightened and laid renewed emphasis on saving lives as a national priority, he also referred to the challenge of saving livelihoods.
Indeed, he raised the possibility of conditional relaxations in some parts of India after 20 April. As he indicated, the period till then
United States
|
Cases: 46 252 513
Deaths: 750 423
Recovered: 0
|
India
|
Cases: 34 321 025
Deaths: 459 652
Recovered: 0
|
Brazil
|
Cases: 21 835 785
Deaths: 608 235
Recovered: 0
|
United Kingdom
|
Cases: 9 215 683
Deaths: 141 607
Recovered: 0
|
Russia
|
Cases: 8 494 589
Deaths: 237 619
Recovered: 0
|