Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) 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 of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister outside of the Indian National Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority and the second to complete five years in office after Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
PM Modi, WHO chief Tedros speak on Covid-19 strategyOn Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a discussion over the phone with World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in which the latter emphasised on the need for close collaboration between the WHO and the Modi government in their battle against the deadly virus.Taking to Twitter, Dr Tedros said that he had a "very productive" telephone call with PM Modi during which both of them talked about ways to "strengthen our collaboration and advance access to knowledge, research and training in traditional medicine globally".The WHO chief wrote, "Namaste, Prime Minister @narendramodi, for a very productive call on how to strengthen our collaboration &.