TopicPM Modi

Topic: PM 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.

PMO steps in to put the shine on new line to push unity in diversity

Anubhuti Vishnoi - 21 July, 2017

The government identified a new mission called ‘Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat’ (EBSB), to foster national unity, and the Prime Minister’s Office has now stepped in to give it a fresh push as it was floundering under the Culture ministry. Anubhuti Vishnoi

Beyond guns and missiles, real juice of India-Israel defence ties is in the “small stuff”

Manu Pubby - 5 July, 2017

As PM Modi visits Israel, specialised Indian defence companies sign tech transfer, JV agreements critical to India’s strategic goal of creating a multi-layered domestic arms industry. MANU PUBBY

Writings on the UP Wall-II: Aspiration and desperation in UP’s East

Shekhar Gupta - 4 March, 2017

Eastern UP's people want out of their sub-Saharan trap. Politicians, including the PM, don't get it.

Dial 2016 for Emergency

Shekhar Gupta - 5 November, 2016

India is complacent if not complicit as in 1975-77. Dangers are bigger now as we have a clear external enemy, strong economy and feckless opposition.

Old game, new rules

Shekhar Gupta - 17 August, 2016

Indian and Pakistan have both followed a consistent policy of talk-talk, fight-fight since the Kashmir insurgency began in 1989. By invoking Balochistan and northern areas, Modi has changed it to 'you mess with our soft underbelly, we will mess with your most vulnerable region.

Why BJP has more lessons to learn about governance

Shekhar Gupta - 22 May, 2016

Post assembly-polls, Narendra Modi should not miss the opportunity to change course and discourse, from combat to governance.

Five predictable results make for an uncertain 2019

Shekhar Gupta - 20 May, 2016

BJP's leadership has earned itself a post-Bihar reprieve, but it hasn't brought them a more convincing nationwide claim in 2019.

When proxy comes to shove

Shekhar Gupta - 26 December, 2015

That attack is on Arun Jaitley, but the target is Narendra Modi — so watch the next four weeks to see how the PM responds.

Narendra Modi – candidate to PM

Shekhar Gupta - 21 November, 2015

Why the prime minister's legacy will depend on how he governs, not the number of state elections he fights as personality contests.

Pulping the Modi script on Muslims

Shekhar Gupta - 13 November, 2015

How BJP's panicky return to basic-instinct majoritarianism in Bihar has pushed Muslims back into 'secular' basement.

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