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.
States ask PM Modi for special financial package
NEW DELHI : Cash-strapped state governments on Monday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally intervene to announce a special financial package for them.
States are demanding a special package as their tax collections, especially from liquor and fuel sales, are dwindling because of the lockdown, even as they have to spend more to combat the coronavirus outbreak and its economic fallout.
In the meeting with Modi on Monday, chief ministers also raised concerns over the fate of migrant workers, inter-state transportation of goods and the need for a graded withdrawal of the lockdown.
This was the fifth such meeting in the past 51 days to discuss the impact of the pandemic. Among states that raised their concerns were
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