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.
Why should India extend the nationwide lockdown
NEW DELHI : Even as the 21-day nationwide lockdown in the wake of covid-19 pandemic has pushed the country into a socioeconomic dilemma, multisectoral authorities across states are against lifting the restrictions.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after holding a discussion with the state chief ministers on Saturday about a plan for the exit from the lockdown, said that there seems to be a consensus amongst the states on its extension by another two weeks.
The World Health Organization had last month called lockdown measures as creation of a “second window of opportunity" to contain the virus and cautioned that early lifting of restriction may cause its resurgence. “We call on all countries who have introduced so-called “lockdown" measures to
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