Biography of Indian PM Narendra Modi

•Narendra Modi was born on 17 September 1950 to a family of grocers in Vadnagar, District - Mehsana.

•He was the third of six children.

•His father name was Damodardas Mulchand Modi who died in 1989 and mother name is Hiraben Modi.

•The Family of Modi belonged to the Modh-Ghanchi-Teli community.

•And which is categorised as an Other Backward Class by the Indian government.

•When Modi was a child, he helped his father sell tea at the Vadnagar railway station.

•Modi completed his higher secondary education in Vadnagar in 1967.

•At age eight, Modi discovered the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and began attending its local shakhas.

•In shakha Modi met Lakshmanrao Inamdar who popularly known as Vakil Saheb, who inducted him as a
balswayamsevak for RSS and became his political mentor.

•While Modi was training with the RSS, he also met Vasant Gajendragadkar and Nathalal Jaghda, Bharatiya Jana Sangh leaders who were founding members of the BJP's Gujarat unit in 1980.

• Modi Engaged while still a child to a local girl, Jashodaben Narendrabhai Modi but Modi rejected the arranged marriage.

•The resulting familial tensions contributed to his decision to leave home in 1967.

•Modi spent the ensuing two years travelling across Northern and North-eastern India, though few details of where he went have emerged

•I Modi has described in his interviews that he had visited Hindu ashrams founded by Swami Vivekananda which is in theBelur Math near Kolkata, followed by the Advaita Ashrama in Almora and the Ramakrishna Mission in Rajkot. Modi remained only a short time at each, since he lacked the required college education.

•Modi's life is said to have Vivekananda's deep influence.

•People who are close to Modi have often been quoted that Modi has molded many aspects of his life as Vivekananda's life.


Political Career of Narendra Modi-

•On 26 June 1975, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India which lasted until 1977.

•During Emergency period, many of her political opponents were jailed and opposition groups (including the RSS) were banned.

•As pracharak in-charge of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student wing of the RSS, Modi was forced to go underground in Gujarat and frequently travelled in disguise to avoid arrest.

•He became involved in printing pamphlets opposing the government.

•During this period, Modi wrote a book in Gujarati, Sangharsh ma Gujarat (The Struggles of Gujarat), describing events during the Emergency.

•He was assigned by the RSS to the BJP in 1985. In 1988, Modi was elected organising secretary of the party's Gujarat unit, marking his entrance into electoral politics.

•He rose within the party, helping organise L. K. Advani's 1990 Ram Rath Yatra in 1990 and Murli Manohar Joshi's 1991–92 Ekta Yatra.

•As party secretary, Modi's electoral strategy was considered central to BJP victory in the 1995 state assembly elections.

•In November of that year Modi was elected BJP national secretary and transferred to New Delhi, where he assumed responsibility for party activities in Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.


•Modi was appointed chief minister of Gujarat in 2001, due to Keshubhai Patel's failing health and poor public image following the earthquake in Bhuj.

•Modi was elected to the legislative assembly soon after.

•His administration has been seen as complicit in the 2002 Gujarat riots or otherwise criticized for its handling of it, although a court found no evidence to prosecute Modi.

•His policies as chief minister, credited with encouraging economic growth, have received praise and several industrial projects were begun during his tenure.


•Modi led the BJP in the 2014 general election which gave the party a majority in the Lok Sabha.

•First time a single party had achieved this since 1984.

•Modi himself was elected to parliament from Varanasi.

•Since taking office, Modi's administration has encouraged foreign direct investment in the Indian economy.

•He increased spending on infrastructure, and reduced spending on health and social welfare programs.

•Modi has encouraged efficiency in the bureaucracy, and centralized power through the abolition of the planning commission.

•Modi has begun a high-profile sanitation campaign, and loosened environmental and labor laws.

•A Hindu nationalist and member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Modi remains a controversial figure domestically and internationally.