Biography of Narendra Damodardas Modi
Our Prime Minister Shri Narendra Damodardas Modi was born on September 17 on year 1950.
He belong to family of grocers of Vadnagar town of Mehsana district of Gujarat. His parents were Damodardas Mulchand Modi and Heera ben Modi. His parents had six children among which Narendra Modi was the third eldest.
He in his teenage use to run a tea stall along with his brother near a railway station in Ahmedabad.He completed his studies from Vadnagar town and got a master's degree in Political Science from Gujarat University.When Modi turned at age 18, he married to JashodabenChimanlal Modi but he he left her soon after. Also He left his parents houseas he decided to be the Hermit.After leaving his parents house he travelled in northern India for two years and visited many religious places.And there one of the saint made him realize that he was born to serve people of country and their he got his motto of life.When in 1971 Modi returned to Gujarat, he started working full time for the RSS.Also when our prime minister Indira Gandhi announced the state of emergency in 1975, Modi was told to be unhide for sometime.In year 1985 modi was assigned to BJP through RSS and he got many good upcoming positions in the party upto 2001.
Shri Narendra Modi is the 14th and current Prime Minister of India from 2014.He also remain the Chief Minister of Gujarat from year 2001 to 2014 and is also the Parliament member by Varanasi.He also became member of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) andRashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation.Among the earlier 13 prime minister He is the first one who was born after India got independence in year 1947.
Political Background as Gujarat Chief Minister:
Narendra Modi was made the Chief Minister of Gujarat in year 2001 because of Keshubhai Patel's health issues and negative image among people of Gujarat because of Earthquake taken place in Bhuj. After that soonest he became elected in legislative assembly. In year 2002 because of riots which took place in Godhra town of Gujarat his administration was almost gone to be ended as in that incident 1044 people were killed, among whom majority were muslims Also the Special Investigation Team was appointed by the Supreme Court of India but they don't found any evidence to initiate prosecution proceedings against Modi. But as a chief minister his policies got credit with increasing economic growth and received praise alsoon the other side his administration Was been criticised for failing to significantly improve health, poverty and education indices in the state.
when Modi led the BJP in the general election in year 2014 the party gets majority in the Indian lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha,which took place for the first time since single party from year 1984.Also his administration tried to raise foreign direct investment in the Indian economy and introduced the concept of reducing spending on healthcare and social welfare projects. He also made an attempt of improving the efficiency of bureaucracy; he has centralised power by abolishing the Planning Commission. He started a great sanitation campaign and also initiated a demonetisation of high-denomination banknotes and transformation of taxation regime, and abolished environmental and labour laws.
India has experienced democratic backsliding under Modi's tenure period In year 2019 when his party got victory in general election, his administration dismantle the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and also introduced the Citizenship Amendment Act, which resulted in widespread protests all over the country. Described as engineering a political transformation towards right-wing politics, Modi remain in controversy In both domestically and internationally over his Hindu nationalist beliefs and the way he handled the Godhra town riots in year 2002 Gives the evidence of his exclusionary social agenda.
After all this he used to receive widespread calls to resign as chief minister of Gujarat from both within and outside the state, which including the calls from leaders of the DravidaMunnetraKazhagam and the Telugu Desam Party and also from the opponent parties. He had gone to submit his resignation on April 2002 at BJP national executive meeting in Goa, but somehow it was not accepted. An emergency meeting was held by his cabinet on 19 July 2002, after which it offered his resignation to the Gujarat Governor S.S Bhandari, and the state assembly was dissolved. After this opposition from the election commissioner, stated that many voters were still missing But Modi succeeded in advancing the election to December in year 2002.In the elections among the 182-members of assembly the BJP won by 127 seats. Although later on modi did not accepted, he made significant use of anti-Muslim rhetoric during his campaig which profited BJP from religious polarisation among the voters.
When modienterd in his second term the expression of the government shifted from Hindutva to economic development of Gujarat. He diminished the influence of Sangh Parivar organisations such as the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) and the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), entrenched in the state, ZadafiaGordhan was dropped from his cabinetafter the decline of Ahmedabad's textile industry. When the farmers' demonstration was staged by BKS Modi ordered their eviction from state-provided houses, and his decision to diminish around 200 illegal temples in Gandhinagar deepened the rift with theVishva Hindu Parishad. Sangh organization was not informed in advance about his administrative decisions.
Modi's relationship with Muslims continued to attract criticism. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee stayed away, from North Indian Muslims before Lok Sabha elections in 2004. After the completion of elections Vajpayee told the violence in Gujarat a reason for the BJP's defeat and he realised that it had been a mistake to leave Modi in office after the riots.
During his tenure of chief minister many western nations also raised questions of his relations with muslim Modi was barred from entering the United States by the State Department, as per the recommendations of the Commission based on International Religious Freedom formed under the aegis of the International Religious Freedom Act, the only person who denied from US visa under this law was Narendra modi.
The UK and the European Union refused to admit him because of what they saw as his role in the riots. As Modi rose to prominence in India, the UK and the EU lifted their bans in October 2012 and March 2013, respectively, and after his election he was invited to Washington as the nation's prime minister.
During the beginning of year 2007 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election and the 2009 Indian general election, the BJP intensified its rhetoric on terrorism. In July year 2006, Modi criticisedopposition party Prime Minister Manmohan Singh "for his unwillingness to revive anti-terror legislation" such as the 2002 Prevention of Terrorism Act. He questioned to the national government to allow states to invoke tougher laws in the wake of the 2006 Mumbai train bombings. After the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, Modi held a meeting to discuss the security of Gujarat's 1,600-kilometre (990 mi)-long coastline, resulting in government authorisation of 30 high-speed surveillance boats. In July 2007 Modi completed 2,063 consecutive days as chief minister of Gujarat, making him thelongest-serving holder of that post and the BJP won 122 of 182 state-assembly seats in that year's election.
Political Background as India's Prime Minister:
In Lok Sabha election of September 2013 Modi name from the BJP's candidate for prime minister came ahead for 2014 .Some BJP leaders opposed this including BJP founding member L. K. Advani.Modi performed an important role in the BJP's election campaign. Some people stated that if Modi cannot be the prime-ministerial candidate whom they voted than they would have voted for another party.Now for BJP election campaign focus on Modi as an individual was not usual The election commission had come to decision of public voting upon Narendra Modi.after winning the 2014 elections modi meets his mother
He focused on the corruption scandals under the previous INC government during his campaign and created his image as a politician who had raised the GDP rate growth in Gujarat. He focused as a person who could bring about "development," without focus on any specific policies. Young Indians and middle-class citizens supported his message. Under Modi ruling the BJP was able to downplay concerns regarding the protection of religious minorities and his commitment to secularism for those for whisch previously he was been criticized.now Modi's image in the media had changed from his role in the 2002 Gujarat riots, To his neoliberal ideology and the Gujarat model of development, prior to this Hindutva remained an important part of its campaign.
The BJP's campaign was assisted by its wide influence in the media and the BJP received extensive financial support from corporate donors. Additionally for more convenient campaign methods, he made more use of social media, and addressed more than 1000 rallies via hologram appearances and other social media platforms. In year 2018, 13th October he was renamed as the BJP candidate for prime minister for the 2019 general election. At that time the chief campaigner for the party was BJP's president Amit Shah.
he had made his slogan Main Bhi Chowkidar campaign ahead of the general election, against Chowkidar Chor Hai campaign Which was slogan of INC.
on 8 April 2019 Amit Shah started the campaign.
In the campaign, he was targeted by the France government on matters like corruption allegations over Rafale deal. The campaign "Chowkidar Chor Hai" was started which was the highlight of this controversy and was contrary to "Main Bhi Chowkidar" slogan. especially after Pulwama attack, he made defence and national security the foremost topics for the election campaign and the retaliatory attack of Balakot airstrike was counted as an achievement of the Modi administration.
The campaign also includes the topics like development in good foreign relations in his first premiership.The Lok Sabha elections were oppose as a candidate by him from Varanasi. He won by 479,500 votes by defeating Shalini Yadav belongs to Samajwadi Party, who fought on SP-BSP alliance.He was with one record appointed the prime minister for a second time by the National Democratic Alliance, after securing 353 seats in the Lok Sabha with the BJP alone won 303 seats.
On 26th May 2014 Narendra Modi was sworn the Prime Minister of India He became the first prime minister who was born after India became independent in 1947. On 6 December 2020, Modi became the 4th longest serving Prime Minister of India and the longest serving Non-Congress Prime Ministers.
ACHIEVEMENT IN POLITICS
Here are the some big achievements in Politics made by PM Modi government :
- PM Kisan Yojana where All the farmers are covered under this project
- Ensured pension to farmers, shopkeepers, laborers
- Ministry of Jal Shakti constituted to end silos on important subject like water
- Special fund of Rs. 25,000 crore for completing housing projects for the middle class
- Regularising unauthorized colonies which benefits 40 lakh people of Delhi
- Law related to triple talaq
- Law for strict punishment against child abuse
- Historical reduction in corporate tax
- Strict law to prevent road accidents
- Law empowering transgender persons
- Chit fund scheme fraud prevention law
- National Medical Commission Act
- Appointment of Chief of Defence Staff
- Delivery of next generation fighter plane to the country
- Formation of Trust for a grand Ram Temple
- Bodo Peace Accord
- Brue-Reang Permanent Settlement
- Decision to revoke article-370
- Decision to make Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh Union Territories
- Citizenship Amendment Act