Narendra Damodardas Modi 

(Gujarati: [ˈnəɾendɾə dɑmodəɾˈdɑs ˈmodiː] ( listen); born 17

September 1950)[a] is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current prime minister of
India since 2014. He was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of
Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its National
Democratic Alliance (NDA). He is also a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),
a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister born after
India's independence in 1947, the second non-Congress one to win two consecutive terms
after Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the first from outside the Congress to win both terms with a
majority in the Lok Sabha.[3]
Born and raised in Vadnagar, a small town in northeastern Gujarat, Modi completed his
secondary education there, and is said to have helped his father sell tea at the local railway
station. He was introduced to the RSS at age eight.[4] Modi left home at age 18 soon after his
marriage to Jashodaben Chamanlal, which he publicly acknowledged many decades later. Modi
has asserted that he travelled around India for two years, visiting a number of religious centres.
Upon his return to Gujarat in 1971, he became a full-time worker for the RSS. During the state of
emergency imposed across the country in 1975, Modi went into hiding. The RSS assigned him to
the BJP in 1985 and he held several positions within the party hierarchy until 2001, rising to the
rank of general secretary.[b]