( Narendra Damodardas Modi born 17 September 1950) is the 15th and

current Prime Minister of India.Modi, a leader of the Bharatiya Janata

Party (BJP), also served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001–14. He is

currently the Member of Parliament (MP) from Varanasi.

Modi was a key strategist for the BJP in the successful 1995 and

1998 Gujarat state election campaigns. He became Chief Minister of Gujarat in

October 2001 and served longer in that position than anyone else to date. Modi

was a major campaign figure in the 2009 general election, which the BJP-

led National Democratic Alliance (NDA)lost to the Congress-ledUnited

Progressive Alliance (UPA). He led the BJP in the 2014 general election, which

resulted in an outright majority for the BJP in the Lok Sabha the last time that

any party had secured an outright majority in the Lok Sabha was in 1984.

Indian general election, 2014 16th Lok Sabha The BJP had already won or was

winning in 283 seats in parliament. NDA: 332 UPA: 58 Others: 152