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 | New Delhi revisits the lives versus livelihood debate
The health crisis has temporarily unified otherwise bitter political rivals Chairing a meeting with the chief ministers of states on Saturday to review the 21-day lockdown which officially ends on 14 April, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sported a mask—the first time since the covid-19 pandemic emerged as the biggest public health crisis for the world as well as India.
At that moment the PM proved the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. In short in his inimitable style, once again he was using optics to convey to the rest of India that defence (self-protection) is still the best offence.
While the optics signalled no dropping of the guard at a personal level, the PM gave enough indications that the initial strategy to contain the
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