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.
PM Modi says biggest lesson from covid-19 is being self-reliant
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said coronavirus has taught India to become self-reliant and dealing with the pandemic has realigned the country's focus on the urgent need for self sustenance.
Speaking to panchayat members across the country via videoconferencing on the occasion of National Panchayati Raj Day, Modi said it was the responsibility of every citizen to strengthen the panchayat system and people should strive to make villages, district, states and eventually the country self-reliant. "Coronavirus has brought new challenges before us which we had not even thought about.
The pandemic has given us a new lesson, we have to become self reliant. We have to become self-reliant so that we are able to sustain
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