“ Narendra Damodardas Modi ” : Journey from a Chaiwala to the PM of India

Born on 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

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At 17, left home & went to Ramakrishna Mission ashram in Rajkot and then to the Belur Math near Kolkata

Then he went to Guwahati and later joined another ashram set up 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 then based at Hedgewar Bhavan, the RSS headquarters in the city.

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Became a full–time pracharak (campaigner) of the RSS in 1970 Became a member of the RSS after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. received some RSS training in Nagpur and given charge of ABVP in Gujarat. In 1975-77, Modi went underground to evade arrest during the Emergency Occasionally disguised as a Sikh, saint, elderly man etc. printed and sent booklets against the central government to Delhi organised agitations and covert distribution of the Sangh's pamphlets

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Also participated in the movement against the Emergency under Jayaprakash Narayan

During this period he wrote a book titled Sangharsh ma Gujarat (Gujarat's struggle) in Gujarati which chronicles events, anecdotes as well as his personal experiences

The RSS assigned Modi to the BJP in 1985 In 1988, Modi was elected as organising secretary of BJP's Gujarat

unit, marking his formal entry into mainstream politics Modi rose to prominence after organising Murli Manohar Joshi's

Kanyakumari-Srinagar Ekta yatra (Journey for Unity) in 1991

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People Said: ‘ Gujarat is over now- it will take at least 20 years to get back from the loses caused to industries ‘

But, Narendra Modi along with 5.5 Cr Gujarati people proved everybody wrong..

NaMo Government in gujarat was about to tear apart..

Law & Order was in no mood to leave Modi without any charges…

But, things changed dramatically…

Modi won the first assembly election with majority…

Leaving all the trauma aside, this man chose the path of ‘Development’…

“ Vibrant Gujarat ”

Kite Festival

Kite Fliers from more than 40 countries take part in it every year, made the local festival

globally acknowledged.

Navratri Festival- even SRK, Deepika, Katrina, Kareena and Salman dances on local tunes..

Ahmedabad River Front

You’re stupid if you’re not in Gujarat…. – RATAN TATA

And, Gujarat CM snatched away landmark ‘TATA Nano’ project from west bengal

Acknowledged globally for his ‘Gujarat Model of Development’

Introduced a whole new concept of addressing political rallies-

MODI in 3D Hologram : created the required buzz

MODI stood by his supporters, and kicked out all his oppositions..

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BJP Lost 2009 National Elections

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Who will be the Next PM candidate for National Elections 2014 ?

And, suddenly one face came upon the national front..

A Leader with Power and PassionA Mass Leader

Visionary ThinkingEyes focused on the stars, feet firmly on the ground

Obsessed with DevelopmentScientific approach to problem solvingSeparating Administration from Politics

An objective decision makerAll inclusive growth

Nothing for himselfUnderstanding the pulse of the people

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Modi Declared as BJP’s PM candidate

The NaMo Campaign

15th September 2013, when Narendra Modi addressed his 1st rally in Haryana till 10th May 2014 in Ballia, UP

Why did his Rallies Stand out ?

At the rally in Visakhapatnam

His Interviews that went viral over FB,Twitter

And, the D-Day arrived: 16th May,2014

The Magical figure of 300+ : ‘Purn Bahumat’

BJP: 282 NDA: 336

The 15th Prime Minister of India:Narendra Damodardas Modi

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Narendra Modi in comparison with other global leaders

Margaret Thatcher

Baroness Margaret Thatcher, the 'Iron Lady', was the first female British Prime Minister

The longest serving PM over the 150 years period in Britain.

In 1979, the Conservative Party won the General Election and Thatcher became PM

The Conservatives went on to win the 1983 election by an overwhelming majority, helped by a divided opposition.

Narendra Modi

• Born to a family of grocers belonging to the oil-presser community.

• At the age of eight, Modi came in contact with RSS and later he was given charge of Sangh's student wing.

• Modi has a large challenge to start with: a messy economy. In a leftist country like India, Modi may start out moderately but may become more radical as he shows signs of political capital to change the country.His success will depend largely on picking the right players for his team, especially the right finance minister.

Margaret Thatcher

• Margaret Thatcher’s father, a shopkeeper.

• Roberts became President of the Oxford University Conservative Association in 1946. She was influenced at university by political works such as Friedrich von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom(1944)

• Her first 2 years in office were not easy - unemployment was very high, but the economy gradually showed improvement. She brought more of her supporters into the Cabinet

Like Great Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, Modi is attempting to use economic messaging about decentralization, small government, and development to restore India’s economic standing and to court foreign investment.

Ronald Reagan

• He was the 40th President of the United States (1981–89), and served as the 33rd Governor of California (1967–75) prior to his presidency.

• He was re-elected in a landslide in 1984, proclaiming that it was "Morning in America".

Ronald Reagan

• Reagan was big on defense. So is Modi. His latest budget opened the market to allow for 49% foreign ownership of Indian defense contractors.

• Reagan’s other trait, cutting bureaucracy, “trickled down” to Modi from across the seas. Modi has been streamlining government since he stepped into office, reducing government positions in hopes to reduce waste and the amount of time it takes to approve large infrastructure projects. India needs that.

Deng Xiaoping

• Chinese communist leader, who was the most powerful figure in the People’s Republic of China from the late 1970s until his death in 1997

• Became a leading political and military organizer in the Jiangxi Soviet, an autonomous communist enclave in southwestern China that had been established by Mao Zedong

Deng Xiaoping

• My Deng Xiaoping analogy is based on three or four reasons. Firstly, Modi represents a decisive break from dynasty rule like Deng Xiaoping broke with the madness of Mao Zedong ideology. Other two things that make me to think further on this are Modi’s decisiveness, pragmatic approach and the obsession to get things done like the Chinese reformist leader. Also, what strikes me as a parallel between the two is the kind of long-term horizon for their countries. Of course, the other parallel is that both of them have baggage.

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PM Narendra Modi Becomes Third Most Followed World Leader on Twitter

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A ray of hope for Indian Economy

Long Live NaMo

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