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 | The government should go for direct spending
The Centre’s extra fiscal expenditure this year may only be a fraction of the ₹20 trillion figure declared by our PM for his vision of a self-reliant India.
Even so, it must push that money out There was palpable relief across India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a ₹20 trillion financial package for our corona-crushed economy.
As he said in an address to the nation on Tuesday, this enormous sum of money—about 10% of gross domestic product—would finance the Centre’s latest “self-reliant India" mission, which had been envisioned to draw its strength from five elements.
One, an economy suitably reformed to expand in “quantum" leaps rather than incrementally; two, high-quality support infrastructure; three, a systemic transformation
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