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Narendra Damodardas Modi ( Gujarati: [ˈnəɾendɾə dɑmodəɾˈdɑs ˈmodiː] ⓘ; born 17 September 1950) [b] is an Indian politician who has served as the 14th prime minister of India since May 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 ...
Top center: Indira Gandhi was the first and only woman to serve as prime minister. Top right: Morarji Desai was the first non- Congress prime minister. Bottom left: Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the first non-Congress prime minister to complete a full 5 year term and the only non-Congress prime minister to date to have served on three occasions.
The prime minister of India is the head of government and has the responsibility for executive power. The president's constitutional duty is to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and the law per article 60. In the constitution of India, the prime minister is mentioned in only four of its articles (articles 74, 75, 78 and 366).
The Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India ( PS to the PM) is the administrative head of the Prime Minister's Office. The officeholder is generally a civil servant, commonly from the Indian Administrative Service and occasionally from the Indian Foreign Service . Since 2019, the officeholder has been accorded with the status of a ...
The Prime Minister's Office ( PMO) ( IAST: Pradhānamantrī Kāryālaya) consists of the immediate staff of the Prime Minister of India, as well as multiple levels of support staff reporting to the Prime Minister. The PMO is headed by the Principal Secretary, currently Pramod Kumar Mishra. The PMO was originally called the Prime Minister's ...
The Principal Scientific Adviser ( PSA) is the chief advisor to the government on matters related to scientific policy. [1] It is currently a Cabinet Secretary level position created in 1999 by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. [2] The first appointed Principal Scientific Adviser was A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. [3]
The premiership of Narendra Modi began on 26 May 2014 with his swearing-in as the Prime Minister of India at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. He became the 14th Prime Minister of India, succeeding Manmohan Singh of the Indian National Congress. Modi's first cabinet consisted of 45 ministers, 25 fewer than the previous United Progressive Alliance government.
August 2020. 1 August – Prime Minister addresses Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon 2020. [54] 14 August – PM Modi becomes the longest-serving non- Congress Prime Minister. [55] 5 August – Prime Minister prays at Hanuman Garhi Temple in Ayodhya, [56] and then held the bhoomipoojan in Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.