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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.

Balasaheb backed Modi after 2002, PM has betrayed him now, says Sena MP Sawant

Shanker Arnimesh -
Arvind Sawant, a former minister in Modi govt, blames PM for 'plotting conspiracy to finish Shiv Sena'. He says Bal Thackeray advised BJP to keep Modi on as CM after Gujarat riots.

AAP’s first Punjab budget is disappointing. It lacks a concrete roadmap to address fiscal deficit

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ThePrint view on the most important issues.

The great paradox of Indian democracy: citizen uprisings but no opposition

+TFP Kapil Komireddi -
India is a site of both institutional decay and civic reclamation. What is missing is an outfit that can sublimate the dispersed fury into disciplined political agitation.

‘Modi did vishpaan like Lord Shankar’, Amit Shah on PM’s response to Gujarat riots probe

ThePrint Team -
The Union Home Minister said the Gujarat government had done everything to quell the riots, promptly calling in the Army, which took 'some time to arrive'.

Modi govt’s assault on democracy is more sinister than the Emergency. Look at the differences

M.G. Devasahayam -
While the Emergency was brutal and sudden, Modi govt's moves are far more insidious and systemic and will undermine our society for a long time.

All in a day of diplomacy: Modi attends BRICS with Xi, meets Foxconn chief amid China-Taiwan row

Shubham Batra -
At their meeting Thursday, Modi and Foxconn chair Young Liu discussed the 'company’s plans for expanding electronics manufacturing capacity in India, including in semiconductors'. 

As Modi readies to talk to China and Russia virtually, realism rules

+TFP Jyoti Malhotra -
Modi will virtually meet BRICS leaders this week, rub shoulders with Western leaders next. India is adjusting its foreign policy to keep pace with the ways of the world.

India is understaffed. PM’s nudge to fill lakhs of public sector job is affordable and doable

Sanjeev Chopra -
From teachers to doctors to IAS officers, India has lakhs of vacancies. Keeping them empty hurts our Sustainable Development Goals.

Modi has actually given democracy a shot in the arm with his usual decision-making style

Zainab Sikander -
Indians are refusing to be silent spectators of Modi govt's disruptive policies. Agnipath protests are the latest indicator from a society that won't be muzzled.

PM flags off first ever torch relay for Chess Olympiad, plays a mini match with Koneru Humpy

Praveen Jain -
The torch will be taken to 75 cities over a span of 40 days before arriving in Mahabalipuram. At every location, chess grandmasters of the state will receive the torch.
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