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TopicNarendra Modi

Topic: Narendra Modi

Narendra Modi is India’s 14th prime minister and has been in power since May 2014. He is the first prime minister to have been born after Independence. Modi is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and has served as Gujarat Chief Minister from 2001 to 2014. His Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi, though, is in Uttar Pradesh, and Modi has represented this seat since 2014.

Narendra Modi joined the RSS, the BJP’s ideological parent, in the 1970s and joined the BJP in 1987. The following year he was chosen as the party’s general secretary for Gujarat. Modi took oath as Gujarat CM in 2001, after replacing Keshubhai Patel, who was held responsible for the government’s poor response to the Bhuj earthquake. Modi contested his first-ever election in 2002, shortly after which the Gujarat riots fueled controversy over his leadership. The Supreme Court in 2022 gave a clean chit to Modi and 63 others in a plea exploring a larger conspiracy behind the riots.

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The KGP and KMP expressways were conceived together. But while the eastern highway was recently opened, its western twin, beset by an over 10-year delay, is set to miss another deadline.

Last Laughs: Modi-Kejriwal fitness politics and PM’s ‘Boy who cried Wolf’ story

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Modi rally at expressway launch a day before Kairana bypoll not illegal but avoidable: EC official

Sanya Dhingra -
Election Commission official tells ThePrint the PMO informally checked if Narendra Modi could address a rally in Baghpat, which is 50km from the poll-bound district.

Modi’s inability to transform economy isn’t a personal failing, it’s a structural problem

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Commentators may have missed that the Indian state is less equipped now to provide the resources and political direction necessary to effectively support industrial development.

Manmohan Singh to MS Swaminathan: The ‘outsiders’ who helped IAS officers rule India better

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
The idea of picking domain experts was endorsed by the first Administrative Reforms Commission in the 1960s. Several experts since have been inducted into government.

India’s growth fastest among big economies but it is yet to make a mark on job market

Ronojoy Mazumdar -
Survey finds hiring in formal job market stagnant; data shows jobs lost not high either as unemployment rate fell to 5.29% in May from 5.64% in April.

Deep in debt, Videocon blames Modi’s India, Supreme Court and Brazil

Ashutosh Joshi -
State Bank of India filed an insolvency petition against Videocon. The TV maker filed an appeal to get back control, blamed India and Brazil for bad debt pile.

Bhaiyyuji Maharaj: The metrosexual godman who walked among the movers & shakers of govt

Bhavdeep Kang -
Bhaiyyuji Maharaj who died today, went from being an unknown godman to walking the power corridors of India. This is an excerpt from Bhavdeep Kang’s book, 'Gurus: Stories of India’s leading Babas'.

Everything ‘goes better with a coke’, and Donald Trump’s nukes

Neera Majumdar -
The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint. The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or...

Rahul Gandhi slams PM Modi for not doing ‘kaam ki baat’

PTI -
Gandhi accused the prime minister of running a pro-rich government and ignoring the farmers and employment of the youth in the country. 
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A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.

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