Narendra Modi - নরেন্দ্র মোদি

 Narendra Modi - নরেন্দ্র মোদি

Narendra Damodardas Modi (Gujarati: Narendra Damodardas Modi; Listen to the pronunciation of this word (help: info), born September 17, 1950) is the fifteenth Prime Minister of India. The politician won a majority by leading the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 16th general election held in 2014. [1] [2] [3] and was sworn in as the 15th Prime Minister of India on 26 May. [4] [5] He was the Chief Minister.

Modi claims to be a member of a Hindutva organization called Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and a Hindu nationalist like the media and intellectuals.

[10] [11] He was criticized in India and abroad for his administration during the 2002 Gujarat riots. [10] [12] [13] [14] [15] On the other hand, he has been criticized for his administration's inability to exert a constructive influence on the human development of his state.

Early life and education

Narendra Modi was born on September 16, 1950 in Baranagar, Mahesana district of Bombay Presidency (now Gujarat state) to a lower caste family of Ghanchi Teli community. He was the third of four children of his parents. . His father's name was Damodardas Mulchand Modi and his mother's name was Hiraben Modi. At the Baranagar railway station, he helped his father sell tea, and as a teenager, he sold tea with his brother near the bus stand. [23] [24] He finished his schooling as a quality student.

Swami Vivekananda's life inspired him in his childhood. [26] At the age of eight, his political guru Lakshmanarao also came in contact with an organizational worker named Inamdar in the local branch of the Modi Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Inamdar recruited him as a child volunteer of the Sangh.

According to the Ghanchi community, Modi's marriage took place when he was a teenager. At the age of thirteen, he got married to a girl named Yashodaben Chimanlal, and at the age of eighteen, their marriage took place. They rarely spend time together as they later split up after Modi decided to follow the life of a traveler. [23] [33] According to Nilanjan Mukherjee, Modi's biographer, the marriage never ended in divorce.Although Modi kept quiet about his married life during the four election campaigns, he accepted Yashodaben as his legal wife when he submitted his nomination papers for the 16th general election in 2014.

The book Common Man Narendra Modi by Kishore Makwana, published in 2014, reveals that after leaving home at the age of seventeen, he visited the Ramakrishna Mission in Rajkot and then the Belur Math. He then joined the ashram established by Swami Vivekananda in Almora town. Two years later, he returned home and joined his uncle's tea shop in Ahmedabad.During this time he also came in contact with the Lakshmanas. [23] [31] During this time he received a bachelor's degree in political science through distance learning from Delhi University, [34] [36] and a master's degree from Gujarat University. [23]