Narendra Damodardas Modi (Gujarati: [ˈnəɾendɾə dɑmodəɾˈdɑs ˈmodiː] (listen); born 17 September 1950)[b] is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current prime minister of India since 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament from Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation. He is the longest serving prime minister from outside the Indian National Congress.

Narendra Modi

Official portrait, 2022
14th Prime Minister of India
Incumbent
Assumed office
26 May 2014
President
Pranab Mukherjee
Ram Nath Kovind
Droupadi Murmu
Vice President
Mohammad Hamid Ansari
Venkaiah Naidu
Jagdeep Dhankhar
Preceded by
Manmohan Singh
Additional ministries
Incumbent
Assumed office
26 May 2014
Ministry and Departments Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Space, Department of Atomic Energy
Preceded by Manmohan Singh
Leader of the House, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office
26 May 2014
Deputy
Rajnath Singh
Speaker
Sumitra Mahajan
Om Birla
Preceded by
Sushilkumar Shinde
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 June 2014
Preceded by
Murli Manohar Joshi
Constituency
Varanasi
14th Chief Minister of Gujarat
In office
7 October 2001 – 22 May 2014
Governor
Sunder Singh Bhandari
Kailashpati Mishra
Balram Jakhar
Nawal Kishore Sharma
S. C. Jamir
Kamla Beniwal
Preceded by
Keshubhai Patel
Succeeded by
Anandiben Patel
Member of Gujarat Legislative Assembly
In office
15 December 2002 – 16 May 2014
Preceded by
Kamlesh Patel
Succeeded by
Suresh Patel
Constituency
Maninagar
In office
24 February 2002 – 19 July 2002
Preceded by
Vajubhai Vala
Succeeded by
Vajubhai Vala
Constituency
Rajkot II
Personal details
Born
Narendra Damodardas Modi
17 September 1950 (age 72)
Vadnagar, Bombay State, India (present-day Gujarat)
Political party
Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse
Jashodaben Modi (m. 1968; estranged)[1]
Residence(s)
7, Lok Kalyan Marg, New Delhi, De
Modi was born and raised in Vadnagar in northeastern Gujarat, where he completed his secondary education. He was introduced to the RSS at age eight. He has reminisced about helping out after school at his father's tea stall at the Vadnagar railway station. At age 18, Modi was married to Jashodaben Chimanlal Modi, whom he abandoned soon after. He first publicly acknowledged her as his wife more than four decades later when required to do so by Indian law, but has made no contact with her since. Modi has asserted he had travelled in northern India for two years after leaving his parental home, visiting a number of religious centres, but few details of his travels have emerged. Upon his return to Gujarat in 1971, he became a full-time worker for the RSS. After the state of emergency was declared by prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1975, Modi went into hiding. The RSS assigned him to the BJP in 1985 and he held several positions within the party hierarchy until 2001, rising to the rank of general secretary.[c]

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