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.
Time to stay put
Over 2,000 daily-wage workers in Ahmedabad took to their feet and other means of transport for their homes back in Rajasthan Too many Indians appear to be in a flap over the 21-day nationwide lockdown announced on Tuesday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to check the spread of Covid-19.
Migrant labourers seem particularly panicky. According to reports, over 2,000 daily-wage workers in Ahmedabad took to their feet and other means of transport for their homes back in Rajasthan.
The virus has dealt them a double whammy: exposing them to infection in the shabby huts they typically inhabit, and robbing them of their livelihoods as the shutdown took effect.
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