Modi is the first Prime Minister of India who was born in 'Independent India’, that is, post-August 15, 1947. He is also the first Indian prime minister whose mother was alive when he took office. He holds the record of winning a Lok Sabha seat by the highest margin (about 5.70 lakhs; Vadodara)
About Narendra Damodardas Modi
Narendra Modi is the current Prime Minister of India. He represents Varanasi constituency in the Lok Sabha. He is the most prominent leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is considered a master strategist for his party. He has been the Chief Minister of Gujarat for four consecutive terms.
Family and Personal Background of Narendra Modi
Narendra Damodardas Modi was born to a family of grocers in a town called Vadnagar in Mehsana district of Gujarat. He was born on 17 September, 1950 to Damodardas Mulchand Modi and Heeraben Modi. The couple had six children among which Narendra Modi was the third eldest.
Modi completed his studies against all odds. His saga of struggle began when as a teenager, he, along with his brother, used to run a tea stall near a railway station in Ahmedabad. He did his schooling from Vadnagar and obtained a master's degree in Political Science from Gujarat University. One of his school teachers described him as an average student but a brilliant debater. During his college days, he worked as a 'pracharak' (promoter) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He left home at the age of 17 years and travelled across the country for the next two years.
At a later stage, during the 1990s, when Modi served as the official spokesperson of the BJP in New Delhi, he completed a three-month long course in the US on public relations and image management.
One of his brothers, Somabhai, is a retired health officer who now runs an old age home in the city of Ahmedabad. Another of his brothers Prahlad, an activist on behalf of fair-price shop owners, has his own fair-price shop in Ahmedabad. His third brother Pankaj is employed with the Information Department in Gandhinagar.
Political Career of Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi always had the utmost zeal and enthusiasm to serve and help the people in need. As a young boy, Narendra Modi offered his services voluntarily to the soldiers at the railway stations during the Indo-Pak war in 1965. He also served affected people during the 1967 Gujarat floods. Modi started working in the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation’s staff canteen. Eventually from there he became a full-time proponent and campaigner, commonly called a 'pracharak', of the RSS. Modi later underwent training at the RSS camp in Nagpur. It is a prerequisite for any RSS member to take up the training course for holding any official position in the Sangh Parivar. Narendra Modi was given charge of the student wing, which is better known as Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). His contribution to the Anti-emergency movement impressed senior political leaders. As a result of this, he was eventually appointed the regional organiser of the newly-formed Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat.
Narendra Modi was an efficient organiser from a very young age. During the Emergency, he arranged for covert circulation of RSS pamphlets and also organised protests against the Emergency rule. During his RSS days, he met the two Jan Sangh leaders, Vasant Gajendragadkar and Nathalal Jaghda, who later founded the state unit of BJP in Gujarat. In 1987, the RSS deputed Narendra Modi to politics by recommending his candidature in the BJP. Modi’s efficiency was recognised and he rose to prominence after managing the Ekta Yatra for Murli Manohar Joshi.
Political Journey of Narendra Modi
- Became the General Secretary of the BJP's Gujarat unit in 1988.
- Recognised as a key strategist for being instrumental in successfully campaigning for the party in the 1995 and 1998 Gujarat Assembly elections, which made the BJP the ruling party in Gujarat.
- Successfully organised two challenging events on national level: the Somnath to Ayodhya Rath Yatra, which was a long march by L. K. Advani and a march from Kanyakumari (southern tip of India) to Kashmir (the northern tip) undertaken by Murli Manohar Joshi. These two events are considered to have contributed in bringing the BJP to power in 1998.
- In 1995, Narendra Modi was appointed as the Secretary of the BJP's national unit.
- Narendra Modi was credited for having successfully carried out the responsibility of revamping the party organisation in different states.
- In 1998, Narendra Modi was promoted as General Secretary and held the position till October 2001.
- Narendra Modi became the Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat for the first time in October 2001 when his predecessor Keshubhai Patel resigned from the post following the defeat of BJP in by-elections.
- After winning the Gujarat Assembly elections three consecutive times and holding the position of the state's chief minister, Modi contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections for the first time. He won the elections by a grand margin and became the Prime Minister of India following the win.
Campaign Launched by Narendra Modi
Modi Pushes to 'Start-Up India'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched his flagship programme 'Start up India, Stand up India' at New Delhi on 16th January, 2016. With this scheme, the Modi government aims at providing a major fillip to entrepreneurship and spur employment in India. The Prime Minister said on the occasion that his government was determined to create an environment that encourages young job seekers to turn into successful job creators.Many young entrepreneurs from India and abroad were present on the occasion. While sharing their experiences, Indian entrepreneurs emphasized the importance of nurturing domestic talent and indigenous technologies to fuel the country's economy.The prime minister announced that the government would dedicate Rs. 10,000 crore to fund new start-ups. He also declared that start-ups will get an 80 percent rebate on patent applications so that they can benefit from cheaper and faster procedures. Furthermore, they will be excused from paying income tax for the initial profit-making years. The prime minister also urged on investors and entrepreneurs to look beyond the IT sector and build companies that tackle India’s problems.Prime Minister Modi further made public a slew of measures to make its 'Start-up India' initiative a success. In order to lessen the regulatory burden on start-ups, it has paved the way for self- certified compliance. This will apply to laws related to contract labour, gratuity payment, EPF, water and air pollution. A mobile app is slated to be launched on April 1, 2016 through which start-ups can earn registration within a day. There will also be a start-up hub to serve as a single point of contact for exchange of relevant knowledge and access to requisite funding.The Modi government is also in the process of creating legal support for fast-tracking patent examination at lesser costs and spreading awareness on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). It has tabled the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Bill 2015 in Parliament. On passage, this bill would enable start-ups to wind up their business voluntarily within 90 days of making application for the same.Modi's Make in India Campaign
‘Make in India’, launched on 25 September 2014 by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is a Government of India project to attract, encourage and invite the oversees companies to manufacture their products in factories and plants located in India. This initiative of PM Modi is aimed at creating generating employment opportunities for the youth of Indian youth and accelerating economic growth by strengthening Indian manufacturing sector. For PM Modi, Make in India is not just about ‘FDI’ in sense of ‘Foreign Direct Investment’ but it also means ‘First Develop India’.Before the 2014 General Elections, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi had promised bringing foreign investment into India to create more job opportunities for the skilled and qualified Indian youth of India. Modi announced an this innovative programme called 'Make in India' in his first Independence Day speech as the Indian Prime Minister on 15 August 2014 at the Red Fort. The initiative is targeted at 25 of the most crucial sectors of the Indian economy including renewable energy, electronics, bio-technology, mining, design manufacturing, automobiles, auto components, chemicals, railways, IT, hospitality, pharmaceuticals, tourism, aviation and textiles.For the initiative, the Indian government relaxed the norms for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in defence sector, raising the limit from 26 percent to 49 percent, while. In addition to that, FDI was now allowed in railways as well by the government had also allowed FDI in railways in August 2014, with the limit of and that too whopping 100 percent.
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