Narendra Damodardas Modi, a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Essay

Narendra Damodardas Modi (nrendr dmodrds modi ( listen), born 17 September 1950) is the 15th and current Prime Minister of India. Modi, a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), also served as Chief Minister of Gujarat from 200114. He represents Varanasi as its segment of Parliament (MP). Modi was a key strategist for the BJP in the successful 1995 and 1998 Gujarat state election campaigns. He became Chief Minister of Gujarat in October 2001 and served longer by utmost in that position than anyone else to date. Modi was a major campaign figure in the 2009 general election, which the BJP-led National Democratic league lost to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA). He led the BJP in the 2014 general election, which resulted in an outright majority for the BJP in the Lok Sabha (the lower house of the Indian parliament), the first time that any political party had done so since 1984. Modi is a Hindu Nationalist and a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).23 He is a controversial figure both within India as hale as internationally4567 as his arrangement has been criticised for the incidents surrounding the 2002 Gujarat riots.78Modi has been praised for his economic policies, which are credited with creating an environment for a high rate of economic growth in Gujarat.9 However, his administration has also been criticised for failing to make a significant positive impact upon the human development of the state.10 Modi was born on 17 September 1950 to a family of grocers belong to the backward Ghanchi-Teli (oil-presser) community, in Vadnagar in Mehsana district of erstwhile Bombay State (present-day Gujarat), India.1112131415 He was the third of four children born to Damodardas Mulchand Modi and his wife, Heeraben.16 He helped his father sell tea at Vadnagar railway station. As a child and as a teenager, he ran a tea stall with his brother near a bus terminus.1718 In 1967, he completed his schooling in Vadnagar, where a teacher descri bed him as being an average student, but a keen debater who had an recreate in theatre.1719That interest has influenced how he now projects himself in politics.20 At the age of eight, Modi came in gather with RSS and he began attending its local shakhas where he came in contact with Lakshmanrao Inamdar, popularly known as Vakil Saheb, who is known as his political guru and mentor. Inamdar inducted Modi as a balswayamsevak, a junior cadet in RSS. During his morning exercise seance at the keri pitha shakha of RSS, healso came in contact with Vasant Gajendragadkar and Nathalal Jaghda, leaders of the Jan Sangh who later founded the BJPs Gujarat state unit in 1980.212223242526 Modis parents arranged his marriage as a child, in keeping with the traditions of the Ghanchi caste. He was engaged at the age of 13 to Jashodaben Chimanlal and the couple were married by the time he was 18. They spent very(prenominal) little time together and were soon estranged because Modi decided to pursue an itinerant life.1727However as per Modis biographer Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, the marriage was never consummated.28 Having remained silent on his marital status, during declarations related to candidature during four state elections since 2002 and having claimed that his status as a single person meant that he had no reason to be corrupt, Modi hold Jashodaben as his legal spouse when filling in his nomination form for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.2930 As per Modi in Kishore Makwanas Common Man Narendra Modi, published in 2014, afterward leaving home at 17, he went to Ramakrishna Mission ashram in Rajkot and then to the Belur Math near Kolkata. Then he went to Guwahati and later joined another ashram square up up by Swami Vivekananda in Almora, in the Himalayan foothills.Two years after, he returned to Vadnagar and after a brief halt at his house, Modi left again for Ahmedabad, where he lived and worked in a tea stall run by his uncle where he again came in contact with Lakshmanra o Inamdar who was then based at Hedgewar Bhavan, the RSS provide in the city.212223 He then worked in the staff canteen of Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation until he became a fulltime pracharak (propagandist) of the RSS in 1970.25 In 1978, Modi graduated with an extramural degree through Distance Education in political science from Delhi University.2228 In 1983, while remaining as a pracharak in the RSS, completed his Masters degree in political science from Gujarat University.1931 He still continues to visit Belur Math occasionally3233 and talks about his dread for the Ramakrishna Mission.