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
We have to fight terror in one voice, rising above politics. That is when the common people will feel secure.
They are fighting for the chair while I am fighting for your happiness.
Good governance is not fire-fighting or crisis-management. Instead of opting for ad-hoc solutions the need of the hour is to tackle the root cause of the problems.
It is not easy to fight elections with a development motto and I am glad people of Gujarat rose above personal and emotional tangles and prioritized development over everything else.
Our nation is rich and our people can be rich. 2014 elections is a fight against poverty.
We did not organize press conferences and talk about fighting against corruption, we acted on the ground and brought changes in the schemes to fight corruption.
The government would devote all its effort to empower the poor and give them strength to fight poverty. Skill development would be accompanied by the spirit of Shrameva Jayate.
Fighting Climate Change calls for innovation, cooperation and will power to make the changes that the world needs.
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 want to do small things, for small people, and to make the small people big...
We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is 'Justice to all. Appeasement to none.' This is our secularism.
I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.