( 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
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