Life Story of Shri Narendra Damodardas Modi
Childhood
Narendra Damodardas Modi was born on September 17, 1950 in the small town of Vadnagar, Mehsana, Gujarat.He belongs to poor family so he started to work in tea stall with his father at the age of 6 years and also go to school.he use to go to school in the morning and work at his father's tea stall in the evening situated at vadnagar station,gujarat and later he and his brother Soma set up a tea stall at bus terminus in Gujarat.Modi was an average student in school but he use to spend alot of time in library reading about Swami Vivekanand and Indian politics.He was known to be a good debator in his school days.
Teenage
In 1967 when Modi was 17 years old he left his home and travelled all India exploring its divine culture by visiting Himalayas,Rishikesh and Ramkrishna mission.He returned home after 2 years and got married to Smt. Jashodaben at an very young age but spent little time with his wife.In 1971 he went to Ahmedabad,Gujarat to join RSS as a fulltime campaigner.He completed his graduation degree from political science from Delhi University in 1978 and then he completed his Masters degree in political science from Gujarat University in 1983.
Political Career
During the 1975-77 national emergency imposed by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Modi remained underground and traveled in disguise. He made use of various tactics including printing and distribution of pamphlets to oppose the government. This brought his managerial, organizational and leadership skills to the fore.
He joined the BJP in 1985 and was made the organization secretary of its Gujarat Unit in 1987.
He contested for Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation elections and won the same, giving BJP its first ever win.
His capabilities were recognized within the party after he helped in conducting L.K. Advani’s Ayodhya Rath Yatra in 1990, which became his first national-level political assignment, followed by Murli Manohar Joshi’s Ekta Yatra in 1991-92.
He played a major role in strengthening BJP’s presence in Gujarat after the 1990 Gujarat Assembly elections.
In the 1995 elections, the party won 121 seats, thereby forming the first-ever BJP government in Gujarat. The party remained in power for a short period, which ended in September 1996.
In 1995, he was appointed as BJP’s National Secretary and relocated to New Delhi, to handle activities in Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.
He became the General Secretary (Organization) in 1998, a position through which he resolved internal political disputes and helped BJP win the 1998 Lok Sabha elections.
He contested in the 2002 Gujarat assembly elections for the first time and won a seat from Rajkot-II, and became the chief Minister of Gujarat.
His government was accused of not doing enough to curb the Gujarat riots of 2002. The riots occurred in retaliation to burning of Hindu pilgrims in a train near Godhra.
He was forced to step down as the Chief Minister following opposition from both inside and outside Gujarat. However, he was re-elected as the Chief Minister in December 2002, after BJP won the assembly elections.
After several investigations carried out by a Special Investigation Team (SIT), Modi was given a clean chit by the Supreme Court due to lack of evidence of his involvement in the violence.
Even though he claimed to have taken measures to bring prosperity and development in Gujarat, many studies and statistics indicate that the state does not rank very high in human development, education, nutrition, and poverty alleviation.
Prime Minister of India
In June 2013, Modi was selected to head the BJP’s 2014 election campaign to the Lok Sabha (the lower house of India’s parliament), while a grassroots campaign was already in place to elect him prime minister. Modi campaigned hard, portraying himself as a pragmatic candidate capable of turning around India’s economy, while his critics portrayed him as a controversial and divisive figure. In May 2014, he and his party were victorious, taking 282 of the 534 seats in the Lok Sabha. The victory marked a crushing defeat to the Indian National Congress, which had controlled country politics for most of the previous 60 years, and sent a message that India’s citizens were behind an agenda that moved away from a secular, socialist state to a more capitalist-leaning economy with Hindu nationalism at its core.
On May 26, 2014 Modi was sworn in as the 14th prime minister of India and the first to have been born after the country got its independence from the U.K.
Awards & Achievements
In 2007, he was named the best Chief Minister in the country, in a survey conducted by India Today magazine.
FDi magazine honored him with the Asian Winner of the ‘FDi Personality of the Year’ award, in 2009.
He featured on the cover page of March 2012 issue of TIME’s Asian edition.
In 2014, he ranked at #15 on Forbes magazine’s list of the ‘World’s Most Powerful People’.
He was listed among ‘Time 100 most influential people in the world’ by Time magazine, in 2014.
He was named as the second most-followed politician on Twitter and Facebook on the ‘30 most influential people on the internet’ list released by Time magazine in 2015.
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