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.
There will still be the risk of subsequent covid waves, but so long as the medical system is prepared for them, this should not be as big a worry as it was a month ago Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with chief ministers was expected to indicate whether or not India’s lockdown would be lifted after 3 May.
On that score, it did not disappoint. Modi, it seems, has asked states to prepare a plan for a partial lifting of the shutdown.
To do so, different regions would be categorized into red, orange and green zones based on infection risk. Green zones may open, orange ones may see some relaxations, but the red ones may have to stay closed.