Biography of indian prime ministers

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    Narendra Modi

    Prime Minister of India since 2014

    "Modi" redirects here. For other uses, see Modi (disambiguation).

    Narendra Damodardas Modi[a] (born 17 September 1950)[b] is an Indian politician who has served as the prime minister of India since 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the member of parliament (MP) for Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wingHindu nationalistparamilitary volunteer organisation. He is the longest-serving prime minister outside the Indian National Congress.[4]

    Modi was born and raised in Vadnagar in northeastern Gujarat, where he completed his secondary education. He was introduced to the RSS at the age of eight. At the age of 18, he was married to Jashodaben Modi, whom he abandoned soon after, only publicly acknowledging her four decades later when legally required to do so. Modi became a full-time worker for the RSS in Gujarat in 1971. The RSS assigned him to the BJP in 1985 and he rose through the party hierarchy, becoming general secretary in 1998.[c] In 2001, Modi was appointed chief minister of Gujarat and elected to the legislative assembly soon after. His administration is considered

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    Indira Gandhi

    Prime Cleric of Bharat from 1966 to 1977 and 1980 to 1984

    Indira Gandhi

    Official sketch, 1983

    In office
    14 Jan 1980 – 31 Oct 1984
    PresidentNeelam Sanjiva Reddy
    Zail Singh
    Vice PresidentMohammad Hidayatullah
    Ramaswamy Venkataraman
    Preceded byCharan Singh
    Succeeded byRajiv Gandhi
    In office
    24 Jan 1966 – 24 Parade 1977
    PresidentSarvepalli Radhakrishnan
    Zakir Husain
    V. V. Giri
    Fakhruddin Caliph Ahmed
    B. D. Jatti(Acting)
    Vice President
    DeputyMorarji Desai (13 March 1967 – 16 July 1969)
    Preceded byLal Bahadur Shastri[a]
    Succeeded byMorarji Desai
    In office
    19 July 1984 – 31 October 1984
    Prime MinisterHerself
    Preceded byP. V. Narasimha Rao
    Succeeded byRajiv Gandhi
    In office
    6 Sept 1967 – 13 Feb 1969
    Prime MinisterHerself
    Preceded byM. C. Chagla
    Succeeded byDinesh Singh
    In office
    14 Jan 1980 – 15 Jan 1982
    Prime MinisterHerself
    Preceded byChidambaram Subramaniam
    Succeeded byRamaswamy Venkataraman
    In office
    1 December 1975 – 20 December 1975
    Prime MinisterHerself
    Preceded bySwaran Singh
    Succeeded byBan

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    At 40, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi was the youngest Prime Minister of India, perhaps even one of the youngest elected heads of Government in the world. His mother, Smt. Indira Gandhi, was eight years older when she first became Prime Minister in 1966. His illustrious grandfather, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, was 58 when he started the long innings of 17 years as free India's first Prime Minister.

    As the harbinger of a generational change in the country, Shri Gandhi received the biggest mandate in the nation's history. He ordered elections to the Lok Sabha, the directly elected house of the Indian Parliament, as soon as mourning for his slain mother was over. In that election, the Congress, got a much higher proportion of the popular vote than in the preceding seven elections and captured a record 401 seats out of 508.

    Such an impressive start as the leader of 700 million Indians would have been remarkable under any circumstance. What makes it even more unique is that Shri Gandhi was a late and reluctant entrant into politics even though he belonged to an intensely political family that had served India for four generations - both during the freedom struggle and afterwards.

    Shri Rajiv Gandhi was born on August 20, 1944, in Bombay. He was just three when India became independent and his

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