He relocated to the national capital handling the duties for party activities in Himachal Pradesh and Haryana. After the strategized win of his party at the state assembly elections in 1995, he was chosen as the BJP’s National Secretary. Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi respectively.Īfter a short break and persuasion by Advani, Modi turned back to politics in 1994. He assisted in Ram Rath Yatra in 1990 and Ekta Yatra in 1991-1992 conducted by great leaders L. This role helped Modi grow and was elected as the member of National Election Committee of BJP in 1990.
After seeing his dedication and enthusiasm, the RSS came to a decision of assigning Modi to a new role of Organising Secretary of the Gujarat unit of BJP. With his proper planning and supervision, BJP won the Ahmedabad Municipal Election. In the year 1985, when he returned to Gujarat, RSS assigned him to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which led him evolve as a leader. In 1978, he was appointed as the sambhag pracharak (regional supervisor) and was involved in the RSS activities in Surat and Vadodara. During this role, he met several national political personalities. Modi penned down his experiences during this event in the book in Gujarati named as Sangharsh Ma Gujarat (meaning – In the Struggles of Gujarat). This RSS group work towards opposition to the Emergency activity in Gujarat due to which he camouflaged himself while travelling in order to avoid getting jailed. The emergency was announced by Indira Gandhi who was then leading the Government of India as the Prime Minister. This RSS committee was formed in 1975, at the time of emergency in India. Narendra Modi was appointed as the Gujarat Lok Sangharsh Samiti’s General Secretary. As a student of distance learning education, he completed his Masters Degree in the same field from Gujarat University. Later on, in the year 1978, Narendra Modi qualification was lifted to one step above of being a graduate in third class with Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Political Science from University of Delhi. In 1971, after the war of India-Pakistan, he rejoined the RSS as a full-time campaigner (pracharak in Hindi). He visited the Hindu Ashram Belur Math in Kolkata, Ramkrishna Mission in Rajkot, succeeding Advaita Ashrama in Almora. Modi travelled across various cities of India with few citations emerged from North to North-eastern India. Just before the elections in April 2014, which led him to become the Prime Minister of India, Modi declared about being married to his wife Jashodaben Chimanlal, however they are estranged. Thereafter, he neither married again nor any discussions regarding his wife Jashodaben were mentioned since decades. After sometime, he deserted himself from the marital ties and left home to lead a separate life. He met Lakshmanrao Inamdar (commonly known as Vakil Saheb) there who introduced him as a junior member of the RSS and guided him towards his political career.ĭue to his custom family traditions, Narendra Modi had a child marriage in his teenage with Jashodaben Chimanlal arranged by his parents.
At the age of eight, Modi commenced the training sessions at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). As per the sources, Modi used to sell tea with his father as a child at the Vadnagar railway station and later on close to bus terminus with his elder brother. Narendra Modi caste is considered under the category of Other Backward Classes. His family belonged to the community of Modh-Ghanchi-Teli (oil presser). He was the third of six kids born to Hiraben Modi (c. On 17 September, 1950, a baby boy took birth in the family of grocers in Vadnagar, a town in the Mehsana district of Bombay State (Now in Gujarat state). The Common Man Image Source: financialpost.in RSS is an organization related to the Hindu nationalist volunteers.
Besides these, he is also a Member of the Parliament for Varanasi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He completed his tenure as the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014. Narendra Damodardas Modi, commonly known as Narendra Modi is an Indian politician who is presently serving as the 14th Prime Minister of India.