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Prime Minister of India since 2014
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India's longest-serving prime minister outside the Congress party, presiding over a shift toward right-wing politics and democratic backsliding while maintaining consistently high approval ratings—and carrying the weight of the 2002 Gujarat violence that killed over a thousand, most of them Muslim.
Born in Vadnagar in 1950, Modi joined the RSS at eight and became a full-time organiser by 1971. Assigned to the BJP in 1985, he rose to general secretary before being appointed Gujarat's chief minister in 2001. His administration was found complicit in the 2002 violence that left up to 2,000 dead, mostly Muslim, though a Supreme Court team found no grounds to prosecute him in 2012. He led the BJP to a parliamentary majority in 2014, the first for any party in three decades. His tenure brought demonetisation, controversial farm laws later repealed, the revocation of Kashmir's special status, a…
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I have the ability to pick stones thrown at me to build a staircase to climb up.
It is not necessary that all the time there will be so much anger against the government.
I've not come to defeat or to put down anyone... I've come to win the hearts of the people of .
I am not the ruler of Gujarat, I'm a servant of Gujarat. The environment in which I grew up, seva is treated as a dharma, not power.
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