Narendra Modi

**Narendra Damodardas Modi** (born: 17 September, 1950) is an Indian politician who is the 14th and current Prime Minister of the Republic of India since 2014. He was previously the Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014. He was later elected as the prime minister in May 2014. He is a member of the right-wing-Bharatiya Janata Party. He is the first Indian prime minister to be born after the country's independence from the British Empire in 1947.

## Early life

Narendra Modi was born into a Gujarati family in Vadnagar. As a child, he used to help his father, who ran a tea stall at Vadnagar railway station.  Later, he and his brother ran a tea stall of their own at a bus terminus.

In 1978, Modi received a B.A. degree in political science from School of Open Learning at the University of Delhi, graduating with a third class. Five years later, in 1983, he received a Master of Arts degree in political science from Gujarat University, as an external distance learning student.

However his degree has been a subject of controversy. Many people claimed the degree as false, but no proof was given by him or his party to prove his degree.

## Political carrer

Modi led the BJP in the 2014 Indian general election which gave the party a majority in the Indian lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha, the first time for any single party since 1984. He soon became Prime Minister of India.

PM Modi's administration has tried to raise foreign investment in the Indian economy and cut spending on healthcare and social welfare programmes. The Modi government has made amendments to existing environmental and labour laws.

Following his party's victory in the 2019 Indian general election, introduced the Citizenship Amendment Act, which resulted in widespread protests across the country.

In 2020, his government introduced new farming bill, which resulted in widespread protests accross the country, according to a report 700 farmers died in the protest. But government took back the bill after almost 2 years of protests before 2022 UP elections.

Modi was appointed Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2001. Modi was elected to the legislative assembly soon after. His administration oversaw the 2002 Gujarat riots, and he was criticized for how he handled them, which was his starting career as a chief minister .There have been multiple investigations into the Gujarat riots, including a Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT), which cleared Modi of any wrongdoing.

As a Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has had high approval ratings. In early 2017, a survey from Pew Research Center showed Modi to be the most popular figure in Indian politics.

## Personal life

In 1968, he married Jashodaben. He was 18 while she 17 that time. However, the couple has been separated but never actually divorced. The marriage was not in memory of people from decades till 2014. A Modi biographer wrote that Modi kept the marriage a secret because he would not have been able to become a pracharak in the RSS, for which celibacy had once been a requirement. Modi had a close relationship with his mother, Hiraben (who died in 2022). He is a vegetarian.

According to Modi during his childhood, he occasionally assisted in his father's tea business on the platform of Vadnagar railway station.

## Other websites

- Official Biographical Sketch in Lok Sabha Website
- Narendra Modi Early Life,  Education ,Political Journey, challenges and Achievement

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Honourable
- **name**: Narendra Modi
- **image**: The official portrait of Shri Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of the Republic of India.jpg
- **caption**: Official portrait, 2025
- **order**: 14th
- **office**: Prime Minister of India
- **term start**: 26 May 2014
- **predecessor**: Manmohan Singh
- **1blankname1**: Ministry and Departments
- **1namedata1**: Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Space, Department of Atomic Energy
- **term start1**: 26 May 2014
- **predecessor1**: Manmohan Singh
- **office2**: Leader of the House in Lok Sabha, Leader of the House, Lok Sabha
- **term start2**: 26 May 2014
- **predecessor2**: Sushilkumar Shinde
- **office4**: 14th List of Chief Ministers of Gujarat, Chief Minister of Gujarat
- **term start4**: 7 October 2001
- **term end4**: 22 May 2014
- **predecessor4**: Keshubhai Patel
- **successor4**: Anandiben Patel
- **office3**: Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
- **constituency3**: Varanasi (Lok Sabha constituency), Varanasi
- **term start3**: 5 June 2014
- **predecessor3**: Murli Manohar Joshi
- **office5**: Gujarat Legislative Assembly, Member of Gujarat Legislative Assembly
- **constituency5**: Maninagar
- **term start5**: 15 December 2002
- **term end5**: 16 May 2014
- **predecessor5**: Kamlesh Patel
- **successor5**: Suresh Patel
- **constituency6**: Rajkot II
- **term start6**: 24 February 2002
- **term end6**: 19 July 2002
- **predecessor6**: Vajubhai Vala
- **successor6**: Vajubhai Vala
- **birth name**: Narendra Damodardas Modi
- **birth place**: Vadnagar, Bombay State, India, Republic of India   (present-day Gujarat)
- **party**: Bharatiya Janata Party (1985–present)
- **otherparty**: National Democratic Alliance
- **spouse**: Jashodaben Modi ( 1968; estranged)
- **residence**: 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, New Delhi, Delhi, India
- **alma mater**: University of Delhi (Bachelor of Arts, BA)
Gujarat University (Master of Arts, MA)
- **awards**: #State honours, List of state honours
- **signature**: Signature of Narendra Modi (Hindi).svg
- **website**:

- **nickname**: List of nicknames of the prime ministers of India#Narendra Modi, see article