Narendra Modi was credited for having successfully carried out the responsibility of revamping the party organisation in different states.In 1995, Narendra Modi was appointed as the Secretary of the BJP's national unit.These two events are considered to have contributed in bringing the BJP to power in 1998.
Advani and a march from Kanyakumari (southern tip of India) to Kashmir (the northern tip) undertaken by Murli Manohar Joshi.
In 1987, the RSS deputed Narendra Modi to politics by recommending his candidature in the BJP. During his RSS days, he met the two Jan Sangh leaders, Vasant Gajendragadkar and Nathalal Jaghda, who later founded the state unit of BJP in Gujarat. During the Emergency, he arranged for covert circulation of RSS pamphlets and also organised protests against the Emergency rule. Narendra Modi was an efficient organiser from a very young age.
As a result of this, he was eventually appointed the regional organiser of the newly-formed Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat. His contribution to the Anti-emergency movement impressed senior political leaders. Narendra Modi was given charge of the student wing, which is better known as Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). It is a prerequisite for any RSS member to take up the training course for holding any official position in the Sangh Parivar. Modi later underwent training at the RSS camp in Nagpur. Eventually from there he became a full-time proponent and campaigner, commonly called a 'pracharak', of the RSS. Modi started working in the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation’s staff canteen. He also served affected people during the 1967 Gujarat floods. As a young boy, Narendra Modi offered his services voluntarily to the soldiers at the railway stations during the Indo-Pak war in 1965. Narendra Modi always had the utmost zeal and enthusiasm to serve and help the people in need. His third brother Pankaj is employed with the Information Department in Gandhinagar. Another of his brothers Prahlad, an activist on behalf of fair-price shop owners, has his own fair-price shop in Ahmedabad. One of his brothers, Somabhai, is a retired health officer who now runs an old age home in the city of Ahmedabad. He left home at the age of 17 years and travelled across the country for the next two years.Īt a later stage, during the 1990s, when Modi served as the official spokesperson of the BJP in New Delhi, he completed a three-month long course in the US on public relations and image management. During his college days, he worked as a 'pracharak' (promoter) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
One of his school teachers described him as an average student but a brilliant debater. He did his schooling from Vadnagar and obtained a master's degree in Political Science from Gujarat University. His saga of struggle began when as a teenager, he, along with his brother, used to run a tea stall near a railway station in Ahmedabad. Modi completed his studies against all odds. The couple had six children among which Narendra Modi was the third eldest. He was born on 17 September, 1950 to Damodardas Mulchand Modi and Heeraben Modi. Narendra Damodardas Modi was born to a family of grocers in a town called Vadnagar in Mehsana district of Gujarat. He has been the Chief Minister of Gujarat for four consecutive terms.įamily and Personal Background of Narendra Modi He is considered a master strategist for his party. He is the most prominent leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He represents Varanasi constituency in the Lok Sabha. Narendra Modi is the current Prime Minister of India.