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 | Three big questions after a week’s lockdown
The shutdown seems more reactive than proactive and requires us to rethink several assumptions The 21-day lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi enters its second week on Tuesday.
The entire healthcare sector has been stretched beyond state-capacity from an emergency-lockdown imposed across states. Testing kits and private protective gear for the medical staff still remain acutely short in supply while images of stranded daily-wage, migrant workers walking on highways in the hope of returning to their homes, evoked an emotive imagery.
If one takes a step back to reason (and understand) both the cause and effect of India’s measure of announcing a blanket lockdown to counter the spread of coronavirus, three big unknowns still
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