BIOGRAPHY of Prime Minister of India- Narendra Modi

                 Publishing date-15/04/2020

     We will study about Modi in following ways:-

   • Early life

   • in politics

   • prime minister of India

   • Initiative and present condition

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  Narendra modi was born on 17 sep 1950 to a family of grocers in vadnagar,Mehsana District(present day Gujarat).

     He was the third of six children born to Damodardas Mulchand Modi (c.1915-1989) and Hiraben Modi (born. 1920) modi's family.

      As a child, Modi helped his father in selling tea at the  Vadnagar railway station.He reopened a stall with his brother  near a bus terminus later.

      Modi completed his higher secondary education in Vadnagar in 1967, where his teacher described him as an average student with an interest in theatres.

    When Modi was 8 years old, he discovered Rashtriya Swaymshevak Sangh ( RSS) and began attending  its local shakhas ( training sessions).

 There is a famous story about Modi.The story is set on his childhood days.There was a temple upholding a Bhagwa Dhwaj ( a saffron coloured flag, popular in Hindu culture). One has to replace the flag with a new one but the problem  was that for reaching the temple, one has to swim across a pond full of crocodile little modi bravely replaced the flag and took out a baby crocodile with him.This shows his rebel and brave attitude developing in him.
          
   • EARLY LIFE •

• Engaged while still a child to Jashodaben, a girl from a family who lived close by.Modi rejected the arranged marriageat the same time he graduated from high school.The resulting familical tensions contributed to his decision to leave home in 1967.

• Modi spent the ensuring two years travelling across Northern and North-Eastern India.Vivekananda has been described as a large influence in Modi's life.

• Sometime in late 1969 or early 1970,Modi returned to Vadnagar for a brief visit before leaving again for Ahmedabad.There,Modi lived with his uncle.

 • After the Indo- Pakistani war of 1971,he stopped working for his uncle and became a full-time parcharak ( campaigner) for the RSS working under Inamdar. In 1978,Modi received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from school of open learning at University of Delhi (DU). 

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 • POLITICAL CAREER •

 • In June 1975, Prime minister,Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India which lasted until 1977.Modi was appointed general secretary of the 'Gujarat lok sangharsh samiti'.

 • Shortly afterwards,the RSS was banned.Modi was forced to go underground in Gujarat and frequently travelled in disguise to avoid arrest.

 • Modi was also involved with creatingva network of safe homes for individuals wanted by the govt. , and in raising funds for political refugees and activists.

 • Modi became an RSS sambhag pracharak ( regional organises) in 1978, overseeing RSS activists in the areas of Surat and Vadodara ,and in 1979, he went to work for the RSS in Delhi.He returned to Gujarat a short while later, and was assigned by the RSS to the BJP in 1985.

 • In 1987, Modi helped organise the BJP's campaign in the Ahmedabad municipal election, which the BJP won comfortly.

 • After L.K. Advani became president of BJP in 1981, the RSS decided to place its members in important positions within the BJP , Modi's wrote during the Ahmedabad election led to his selection for this role, and Modi was elected organising secretary of the BJP's  Gujarat until later in 1987.

 • Modi rose within the party and was named a member of the BJP's National Election committee in 1990, helping organise L K Advani's 1990 Ram Rath Yatra in 1990 and Murli Manohar Joshi's 1991-1992 Ekta Yatra ( Journey for unity ).

 • Modi's electoral strategy was considered central to the BJP victory in the 1995 state assembly elections in November of that year Modi was elected BJP national secretary and transferred to New Delhi.

  •  CHIEF MINISTER OF GUJARAT •

 • His strategy was credited as key to thevBJP winning an overall majority in the 1998 elections, and Modi was promoted to BJP general secretary ( organisation ) in May of that year.

 • In 2001,Keshubhai patel'a health was failing and the BJP lost a few state assembly seats in by- elections. The BJP national leadership sought a new candidate for thecchief Ministership, and Modi, who had expressed misgiving about Patel's administration, was chosen as a replacement.

 • On 3 Oct. 2001, he replaced Patel as CM of Gujarat, with the responsibility of preparing the BJP for the December 2002 elections.

   On 7 Oct. 2001,Modi was administered the oath of office.

• GUJARAT RIOTS •

 • On 27 Feb 2002, a train with several hundred passengers burned near Godhra, killing approximately 60 people.

                          Next day, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad called for a bandh across the state Riots began during the bandh , and Anti- Muslim violence spread through Gujarat.

 • The Modi government imposed a curfew in 26 major cities, issued shoot- at - sight orders and called for the army to patrol the streets, but was unable to prevent the violence from escalating.

 • During the riots, officers often did not intervene in situations where they were able. In 2012, Maya Kodnani, a minister in Modi's Government from 2007 to 2009, was convictedby a lower court for participation in the Naroda Patiya massacre during the 2002 riots. On 21 April 2018, the Gujarat High noting that there were several shortfalls in the investigation.

  • Modi's personal involvement in the 2002 events has continued to be debated. In March 2008, the Supreme court reopened several cases related to the 2002 riots, and established a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to look into the issue.

 • The SIT questioned Modi in March 2010, in May, it presented to the court a report finding no evidence against him in July 2011, the court - appointed Raju Ramachandran submitted his final report to the court.

 • Contrary to the SIT's position he said that Modi could be prosecuted based on the available evidence. The Supreme Court gave the matter to the magistrate's court.The Supreme Court gave the matter to the magistrate's court. The SIT examined Ramchandran's report , and in March 2012, submitted as final report, asking for the case to be closed, Zakira Jaffri filed a protest petition in response in Dec. 2013, the magistrate's court rejected the protest petition, accepting the SIT's finding that there was no evidence against the chief minister.

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  • SECOND TERM • 

 • In the aftermath of the violence there were widespread calls for Modi to resign as Chief Minister from written and outside the state,including from leaders.

 • Modi submitted his resignation at the April 2002 BJP national executive meeting in GOA, but it was not accepted.

  

 • His cabinet had an emergency meeting on 19 July 2002, after which it offered its resignation to the Gujarat governer, S.S. Bhandhari, and the state assembly was dissolved.

 • In the elections, the BJP won 127 seats in the 182- member assembly.

  • DEVELOPMENT BY MODI •

 • The government led by patel and Modi supported NGO'S   and commutities in the creation of ground water conservation projects. By December 2008,  500,000 structures had been built, of which 1113,738 were check dams, which helped recharge the aquifers beneath them.

 • 60 of the 112 tehsils which had depleted the water table in 2004 had regained their normal groundwater levels by 2010.

 • As a result, the state's production of genetically modified cotton increased to become the largest in India. The boom in cotton production and its semi- arid land use led to Gujarat's agricultural sector growing at an average rate of 9.6% from 2001-2007.

 • The modi government finished the process of bringing electricity to every vilkage in Gujarat that its predecessor had almost completed......

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 •  This was just the part -1 of the biography.

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