2. Born 0n 17th September 1950 to a family of grocers.
Third of six children born to Damodardas Mulchand Modi and his
wife Heeraben.
As a child and as a teenager, he ran a tea stall with his brother near
a bus terminus.
Completed his schooling in Vadnagar in 1967.
At the age of eight, Modi came in contact with RSS.
Modi was married by the time he was 17, keeping with the
traditions of Ghanchi Caste
Early Life
3. At 17, left home & went to Ramakrishna Mission ashram
in Rajkot and then to Belur Math near Kolkata.
Then he went to Guwahati and later joined another
ashram setup by swami Vivekananda in Almora, in the
Himalayan foothills.
Again worked in a tea stall run by his uncle where he
again came in contact with Lakshmanrao Inamdar who
was the based at Hedgewar bhavan, the RSS
headquarters in the city.
4. Chief Minister of Gujarat to Prime
Minister of India
BJP lost in the General Election of 2004 and 2009
This created a huge problem for the party to select the Next PM candidate for
National Elections 2014
And, suddenly one face came upon the nation front.
A leader with Power and Passion.
Mass Leader
Visionary Thinking
Obsessed with Development
Scientific approach to problem solving
Separating Administration from Politics
An Objective decision maker
All inclusive growth
Nothing for himself
Understanding the pulse of the People
6. The NaMo Campaign
• 15th September 2013, when Narendra Modi addressed his 1st rally in
Haryana till 10th May 2014 in Ballia, UP
Initial Rallies 38
Bharat Vijay Rallies 200
Other Rallies and Programmes 240
3D Rallies 1350
Chai Pe Charcha 4000
Road Shows in Vadodara and Varanasi 2
Grand Total 5830
13. Economic policy
The economic policies of Modi's government focused on privatisation
and liberalisation of the economy, based on a neoliberal framework.
Modi liberalised India's foreign direct investment policies, allowing
more foreign investment in several industries, including in defence
and the railways.[Other proposed reforms included making it harder
for workers to form unions and easier for employers to hire and fire
them;some of these proposals were dropped after protests. The
reforms drew strong opposition from unions: on 2 September 2015,
eleven of the country's largest unions went on strike, including one
affiliated with the BJP. The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, a constituent of
the Sangh Parivar, stated that the underlying motivation of labour
reforms favoured corporations over labourers.
14. Foreign policy
The foreign relations of India with the USA also mended after Narendra
Modi became the Prime Minister. During the run-up to the general
election there was wide-ranging scepticism regarding future of the
strategic bilateral relation under Modi's premiership as in 2005 he was,
while Chief Minister of Gujarat, denied a U.S. visa during the Bush
administration for his poor human rights records. However sensing
Modi's inevitable victory well before the election, the US Ambassador
Nancy Powell had reached out to him as part of greater rapprochement
from the west. Moreover, following his 2014 election as the Prime
Minister of India, President Obama congratulated him over the
telephone and invited him to visit the US. The Modi government was
successful in forging good foreign relations with the USA in the
presidencies of both Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
15. Defence policy
India's nominal military spending increased steadily
under Modi. The military budget declined over Modi's
tenure both as a fraction of GDP and when adjusted for
inflation. A substantial portion of the military budget was
devoted to personnel costs, leading commentators to write
that the budget was constraining Indian military
modernisation.
