Narendra Damodardas Modi (Gujarati: 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 (BJP), 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 (the lower house of the Indian parliament), for the first time since 1984 general elections.

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Since Modi's taking office as Prime Minister, his administration has focused on reforming and modernising India's infrastructure and government, encouraging increased foreign direct investment, improving national standards of health and sanitation and improving foreign relations.

 

Earlier, as Chief Minister of Gujarat, Modi's economic policies (credited with encouraging economic growth in Gujarat) have been praised. 

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