Monday, 21 December 2015

Family and Personal Background of Narendra Modi

Narendra Damodardas Modi hails from a family of grocers in a town called Vadnagar in the northern Mehsana district of the state of Gujarat. He was born on 17 September 1950 to Damodardas Mulchand Modi and Heeraben Modi. Narendra Modi is the third eldest of his six siblings.

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 the Gujarat University. One of his school teachers described him as an average student but a brilliant debater. During his college days, he acted as a pracharak (promoter) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

At a later stage, during the 1990s when Modi served in New Delhi as the official spokesperson of the BJP, 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.

Important Facts about Narendra Modi

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).

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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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 during the Indo-Pak war in 1965, Narendra Modi voluntarily offered his services to the soldiers at the railway stations. He also served the 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 in 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). 

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Narendra Modi Elections result

YearConstituencyStateStatus
2014VaranasiUttar PradeshWon
2014VadodaraGujaratWon
Narendra Modi was an efficient organiser from a very young age. During the Emergency, he arranged for covert circulation of pamphlets featuring RSS' views and also organised protests against the 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. Later in the year 1987, the RSS deputed Narendra Modi to politics by recommending his candidature in the BJP. Modi’s efficiency was acknowledged and he rose to prominence after organising the Ekta Yatra for Murli Manohar Joshi. - See more at: http://www.elections.in/political-leaders/narendra-modi.html#sthash.UB3zfF4Q.dpuf

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