Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi
Narendra Damodardas Modi, born 17 September 1950) is the 14th and current Prime Minister of India, in office since 26 May 2014. Modi, a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament from Varanasi. He led the BJP in the 2014 general election, which gave the party a majority in the Lok Sabha, for the first time since 1984 general elections...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth17 September 1950
CityVadnagar, India
CountryIndia
I want to do small things, for small people, and to make the small people big...
We want to enable Start-Ups and make India no 1 in this field. Start-Up India and Stand-Up India!
The young generation of today is globally connected. They want to live in an equitable and efficient India. We have to be ready for this, and work for this.
We want to change the identity of Delhi from Generator Capital to Power Generation Capital.
We want to invite the world to Make in India, make India as the base for manufacturing electronic goods.
Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must be for the poor. All our schemes must serve the poor.
I assure the ex servicemen that One Rank One Pension has been accepted in principle but it is in talks. We want to get a solution which is acceptable to all. Discussions have come to the final leg, we hope for a positive result.
Politics is not a profession, it is a service. I want to keep working more for the Nation not because of the designation, but because people of India are my family.
India wants to help Nepal build highways (H), information highways (I) and transways - transmission lines (T).
We want to make nation-building a people's movement.
We always remember the courage of the people of Kargil! We want to make Kargil among India's most developed districts.
From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.
I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.
I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I'm from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, 'Single-fare, double journey.'