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.
Delhi’s Aam Aadmi Party government has pitched for easing restrictions and opening markets on alternate days More power to classify zones, exhaustive testing and restarting economic activity are the leitmotifs of the coronavirus lockdown playbook presented by state governments to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
With India’s economic activity coming to a standstill, states favour a calibrated opening of their economies—with safeguards, as migrant workers start coming home, carrying the risk of transmission.
In his fifth meeting with chief ministers on Monday regarding the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked states to present a blueprint for an exit strategy.