Narendra Modi

Narendra Modi
14th Chief Minister of Gujarat

Incumbent
Assumed office
7 October 2001
Governor Sunder Singh Bhandari
Kailashpati Mishra
Balram Jakhar
Nawal Kishore Sharma
S. C. Jamir
Kamla Beniwal
Preceded by Keshubhai Patel
Constituency Maninagar
Personal details
Born Narendra Damodardas Modi
17 September 1950
Vadnagar, Bombay State, India
Political
party
Bharatiya Janata Party
Residence Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Alma mater Gujarat University
Religion Hinduism
Website NarendraModi.in
(http://www.narendramodi.in/)
FromWikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Narendra Damodardas Modi ( pronunciation ; born 17
September 1950) is the 14th and current Chief Minister of
Gujarat, a state in western India. Modi was a key
strategist for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the
successful 1995 and 1998 Gujarat state election
campaigns. He first became chief minister of Gujarat in
October 2001, being promoted to the office upon the
resignation of his predecessor, Keshubhai Patel, following
the defeat of BJP in by-elections. In July 2007, he became
the longest-serving Chief Minister in Gujarat's history
when he had been in power for 2,063 days continuously.
Under his leadership, the BJP won the 2012 Gujarat
assembly election and he was chosen to serve for a fourth
term as chief minister.
Modi is a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
(RSS) and describes himself as a Hindu nationalist
[1]
and
is described as a Hindu Nationalist by scholars.
[2][3]
Modi
is a controversial figure both within India and
internationally.
[4][5][6][7]
His administration has been
criticised for the incidents surrounding the 2002 Gujarat
violence.
[7][8]
His policies are credited with creating the
environment for the high economic growth in Gujarat.
[9]
1 Early life and activism
1.1 Early life
1.2 Education and political activism
2 2002 Gujarat violence
2.1 2002 election
3 Second term (20022007)
3.1 Terrorism and elections in 20072008
4 Third term (20072012)
4.1 Development projects
4.2 Critique of Gujarat "miracle"
4.3 Cabinet issues
4.4 Sadbhavana Mission and Fasts
4.5 Legislation and appointments
5 Fourth term (2012present)
5.1 Role in central politics
5.2 Uttarakhand floods controversy
5.3 Possible prime-minister
6 International diplomacy
7 Personality and image
8 Awards and recognitions
9 References
Narendra Modi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narendra_Modi
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10 External links
Early life
Modi was born on 17 September 1950
[10]
to a family of grocers in Vadnagar in Mehsana district of what was
then Bombay State (present-day Gujarat), India.
[11]
He was the third of six children born to Damodardas
Mulchand Modi and his wife, Heeraben.
[12][13]
While a teenager, Modi ran a tea stall with his brother
around a bus terminus.
[14]
He completed his schooling in Vadnagar, where a teacher describes him as being
an average student but a keen debater.
[13]
He began work in the staff canteen of Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation, where he stayed till he
became a fulltime pracharak (propagator) of the RSS.
[13][15]
After Modi had received some RSS training
in Nagpur, which was a prerequisite for taking up an official position in the Sangh Parivar, he was given
charge of Sangh's student wing, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, in Gujarat. Modi organised agitations
and covert distribution of Sangh's pamphlets during the Emergency.
[13]
During his years in the RSS, Modi
came in touch with Vasant Gajendragadkar and Nathalal Jaghda, leaders of the Jan Sangh, who later founded
the BJP's Gujarat state unit.
[15]
Education and political activism
Modi remained a pracharak in the RSS while he completed his Master's degree in political science from
Gujarat University.
[16]
The RSS seconded Modi to the BJP in 1987.
[15][17]
While Shankarsingh Vaghela and
Keshubhai Patel were the established names in the BJP, Modi rose to prominence after organising Murli
Manohar Joshi's Ekta yatra (journey for unity).
[13]
His electoral strategy was central to BJP's victory in the
1995 state elections.
[15][17][18]
Modi became the General Secretary of the BJP and was transferred to New Delhi where he was assigned
responsibility for the party's activities in Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.
[17]
Vaghela, who had threatened to
break away from BJP in 1995, defected from the BJP after he lost the 1996 Lok Sabha elections. In 1998,
Modi was promoted to the post of National Secretary of the BJP.
[13]
While selecting candidates for the 1998
state elections in Gujarat, Modi sidelined people who were loyal to Vaghela and rewarded those who
favoured Patel, thus ending factional divisions within the party. His strategies were key to winning those
elections.
[17]
Patel's failing health, along with allegations of abuse of power, corruption and poor administration, as well as
a loss of BJP seats in by-elections and the effects of the devastating Bhuj Earthquake of 2001, which his
administration struggled to handle, prompted the BJP's national leadership to seek a new candidate for the
office of chief minister.
[17][19][20]
Modi, who had aired his misgivings about Patel's administration, was
chosen as a replacement.
[13]
L. K. Advani, a senior leader of the BJP, however, did not want to ostracise
Patel and was worried about Modi's lack of experience in governance. It was suggested that Modi should be
made the deputy chief minister in a government led by Patel. Modi informed Advani and Atal Bihari
Vajpayee that he was "going to be fully responsible for Gujarat or not at all" and declined the proposal. On 7
October 2001, Modi was appointed the Chief Minister of Gujarat and was assigned responsibility to prepare
the BJP for elections in December 2002.
[19]
As Chief Minister, Modi's ideas of governance revolved around
privatisation and small government, which stood at odds with what Aditi Phadnis has described as the "anti
privatisation, antiglobalisation position" of the RSS.
[19]
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Main article: 2002 Gujarat violence
In 2002, there was widespread Anti-Muslim violence throughout Gujarat after reports that a crowd of
Muslims had attacked a train carrying mostly Hindu Pilgrims and set it on fire near Godhra railway station
burning alive many of the paasengers.
[21]
The Gujarat administration was accused by the opposition and
sections of the media of taking insufficient action against the violence, and even condoning it in some cases.
[22][23][24]
The Modi government had imposed curfews, issued shoot-at-sight orders and called for the army
to prevent the violence from worsening but the combined strength of the army and state police proved
insufficient.
[23][24]
In April 2009, the Supreme Court of India appointed a Special Investigation Team (SIT)
to inquire into the Gujarat government and Narendra Modi's role in the incidents of communal violence.
[22]
The SIT reported to the court in December 2010 submitting that they did not find any incriminating evidence
against Modi of willfully allowing communal violence in the state.
[25]
Modi's decision to move the corpses of the kar sevaks who had been burned to death in Godhra to
Ahmedabad had been criticised for inflaming the violence.
[26][27]
However, SIT found his decision to be
justified.
[28]
In April 2012, the SIT absolved Modi of any involvement in the Gulbarg Society massacre that occurred in
2002.
[29][30]
On 7 May 2012, the Supreme Court-appointed amicus curiae, Raju Ramachandran, observed
that Modi could be prosecuted for promoting enmity among different groups during the 2002 Gujarat
violence. His main contention was that the evidence should be examined by a court of law because the SIT
was required to investigate but not to judge.
[31]
The amicus report has been criticised by the Special
Investigation Team for relying heavily on the testimony of Sanjiv Bhatt.
[32]
In July 2013 allegations were
made that the SIT had suppressed evidence.
[33]
2002 election
Main article: Gujarat legislative assembly election, 2002
In the aftermath of the violence, there were calls for Modi to resign from his position as chief minister of
Gujarat. The opposition parties stalled the national parliament over the issue. Both the Dravida Munnetra
Kazhagam
[citation needed]
(DMK) and Telugu Desam Party (TDP), allies of the BJP, also asked for Modi's
resignation, as did Jayalalithaa, the leader of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party.
[34][35]
Modi submitted his resignation and the state Assembly was dissolved.
[36]
In the resultant elections the BJP,
led by Modi, won 127 seats in the 182-member assembly.
[37]
Modi used extreme anti-Muslim rhetoric during
the campaign.
[38][39][40]
During his second term, Modi's emphasis shifted from Hindutva to the economic development of Gujarat.
[19]
Modi's decisions curtailed the influence of organizations of the Sangh Parivar such as the Bharatiya Kisan
Sangh (BKS) and Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP),
[41]
which had become entrenched in Gujarat after the
decline of Ahmedabad's textile industry.
[19]
Modi dropped Gordhan Zadaphia, an ally of his former Sangh
coworker and VHP state chief Praveen Togadia, from the cabinet ministry. When BKS launched a farmers'
agitation, Modi ordered their eviction from houses provided by the state government.
[41]
Modi's decision to
demolish 200 illegal temples in Gandhinagar deepened the rift with VHP.
[41][42]
Various organisations of the
Sangh were no longer consulted or apprised of Modi's administrative decisions prior to enactment.
[41]
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Between 20022007, Gujarat emerged as an attractive investment destination. Aditi Phadnis, author of
Political Profiles of Cabals & Kings and columnist in the Business Standard, writes that "there was
sufficient anecdotal evidence pointing to the fact that corruption had gone down significantly in the state... if
there was to be any corruption, Modi had to know about it".
[19]
Modi instituted financial and technology
parks in the state. During the 2007 Vibrant Gujarat summit, real estate investment deals worth 6.6 trillion
(short scale) ( 6600 billion) were signed in Gujarat.
[19]
In 2003, when Narendra Modi was asked about the
conflict of his dreams for Gujarat's future with international criticism of his past activities, Modi said,
[43]
Yet, no one has asked this question to the USA after 9/11. Delhi is developing fast no one has
asked this question to Delhi after 1984. If it does not matter to Delhi and USA, why should it
matter to Gujarat?
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, then Prime Minister of India, who had asked Modi not to discriminate between citizens
in the aftermath of the 2002 Gujarat violence and had pushed for his resignation as Chief Minister of
Gujarat,
[44][45]
distanced himself from Modi and reached out to North Indian Muslims before the 2004
elections to the Lok Sabha. After the elections, Vajpayee held the violence in Gujarat as one of the reasons
for BJP's electoral defeat and acknowledged that not removing Modi immediately after the Gujarat violence
was a mistake.
[46][47]
Modi had attempted to equate the Gujarat violence with the events of 9/11 in the USA
and responded to a newspaper's criticism that compared him to Hitler, Pol Pot and Slobodan Milosovic by
saying that "I have not read and I would not like to read [the criticism]. But thank you people for spending
time on me."
[43]
Terrorism and elections in 20072008
Further information: Gujarat legislative assembly election, 2007
In the lead up to assembly and general elections in 20072008, the BJP stepped up its rhetoric on
terrorism.
[48]
On 18 July 2006, Modi criticised the Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, "... for his
reluctance to revive anti-terror legislations" such as the Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act. He asked the
national government to allow states to invoke tougher laws in the wake of the 2006 blasts in Mumbai.
[49]
Modi said that:
Terrorism is worse than a war. A terrorist has no rules. A terrorist decides when, how, where and
whom to kill. India has lost more people in terror attacks than in its wars.
[49]
Around this time Modi frequently demanded the execution of Afzal Guru,
[50]
a collaborator of the Pakistani
jihadists who had been convicted of terrorism for his involvement in the 2001 Indian Parliament attack.
[51][a]
Modi had completed 2,063 consecutive days as chief minister of Gujarat in July 2007, making him the
longest-serving holder of that post.
[52]
The BJP won the 2007 election, gaining 122 of the 182 seats in the
state assembly, and Modi continued in office as chief minister.
[53]
As a consequence of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, Modi held a meeting to discuss security of
Gujarat's 1,600 km (990 mi) coastline. This resulted in the central government authorised construction of 30
highspeed surveillance boats.
[54]
Gujarat is a semi-arid state and, according to Tushaar Shah, was "... never known for agrarian dynamism"
but in recent years has improved its agricultural output substantially, in large part due to projects relating to
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improvement of groundwater supplies in Saurashtra, Kachchh and the north, as well as efforts to increase the
use of micro-irrigation and to provide more efficient power supply to farms. Public irrigation measures in the
central and southern areas, such as the Sardar Sarovar Project, have not been so successful in achieving their
aims.
[55]
Development projects
Successive BJP governments under Patel and Modi supported NGOs and communities in the creation of
infrastructure projects for conservation of groundwater. By December 2008, 500,000 structures had been
constructed, of which 113,738 were check dams. While most check dams remained empty during the
pre-monsoon season, they helped recharge the aquifers that lie beneath them.
[55]
60 of the 112 Tehsils which
were found to have overexploited the groundwater table in 2004 had regained their normal groundwater
level by 2010
[56]
and Gujarat had managed to increase its groundwater levels at a time when they were
falling in all other Indian states. As a result, production of genetically-modified Bt cotton, which could now
be irrigated using tube wells, increased to become the largest in India.
[55]
The boom in cotton production and
utilization of semiarid land
[57]
saw the agriculture growth rate of Gujarat increase to 9.6% in the period
20012007.
[58]
For the decade 20012010, Gujarat recorded a Compound annual growth rate of 10.97%,
the highest among all Indian states.
[57]
The system of supplying power to rural areas has been changed radically and has had a greater impact on
agriculture than the irrigation works. While states such as Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu provided free
electricity to farms, and most other states provided subsidised power, the Gujarat government between
20032006 reacted to concerns that such measures result in waste of the power supplied and of groundwater
itself with the Jyotigram Yojana scheme, based on ideas developed by the International Water Management
Institute. Agricultural supplies were rewired to separate then from other rural supplies and then the
electricity used by farms was rationed to fit with scheduled demand for irrigation and consequently to reduce
the amount of subsidy being paid. The farmers objected to this at first but came to realise that the outcome
was that they were receiving a supply that suffered less from interruption, was of a more consistent voltage
and was available when they most needed it for irrigation purposes. Other states have since begun to adopt
similar, although not identical, strategies.
[55]
Critique of Gujarat "miracle"
Modi's government has worked to brand Gujarat as a state of dynamic development and economic growth
and prosperity, using the slogan "Vibrant Gujarat".
[59][60][61]
However critics point out that Gujarat has a
relatively poor record when it comes to human development, poverty alleviation, nutrition and education.
The state is 13th in India for poverty, 21st for education and 44.7% percent of children under five are
underweight and 23% are undernourished putting the state in the "alarming" category on the Hunger
Index.
[62]
However, officials from the state of Gujarat claim that Gujarat outperformed India as a whole in
the rates of improvement of multiple human indicators such as female education, between 2001 and 2011.
Furthermore, they state that dropout rates declined from 20% in 2001 to 2% in 2011, and Maternal Mortality
declined by 32% from 2001 to 2011
[63]
Political scientist Christophe Jaffrelot points out that the development in Gujarat has been limited to the
urban middle class, whereas rural dwellers and lower castes have become increasingly marginalized. This is
evidenced by the fact that despite the high economic growth Gujarat is only 21st in Human development
index, because rural Gujaratis continue to lag behind. He claims under Modi the number of families living
below the poverty line has increased, and that particularly rural adivasi and dalits have become increasingly
marginalized.
[64]
In July 2013, Economics Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen criticized Narendra Modi's
governance record and said he did not approve of it, under his administration, Gujarat's "record in education
and healthcare is pretty bad".
[65]
However, economists Arvind Panagariya and Jagdish Bhagwati note that
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Gujarat's social indicator improved from a much lower baseline than other Indian states. They point to
Gujarat's superior performance in raising literacy rates when compared to other states in India and the rapid
improvement of health indicators in Gujarat as evidence that "its progress has not been poor by any
means."
[66]
Cabinet issues
In 2010 Modi made a speech at Mangrol in which he justified the extrajudicial killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh,
during the election campaign in response to Sonia Gandhi's speech calling him a "merchant of death",
[67]
and
referred to Sohrabuddin's killing. For this speech the Election Commission of India, a constitutional body
governing election proceedings in India, cautioned Modi as it considered it as indulging in an activity which
may aggravate existing differences between different communities.
[68]
In 2010 Amit Shah, Modi's close
confidant and Home minister in his government was indicted for having ordered the killing of Sohrabuddin
and two others, after spending three months in jail he was released on bail, and subsequently relected in one
of Ahmedadbad's constituencies.
[64][69]
In 2012 Maya Kodnani another of Modi's former minister's from
2007 - 2009 was convicted of having participated in the Naroda Patiya massacre during the 2002 violence.
[70][70][71][72]
She is the first female and first MLA to be convicted in a post-Godhra riots case.
[73]
While
first announcing that it would seek the death penalty for Kodnani, Modi's government eventually pardoned
her in 2013 and settled for a prison sentence.
[74][75][76]
Sadbhavana Mission and Fasts
During late 2011 and early 2012, Modi undertook a series of fasts as part of a Sadbhavna Mission (Goodwill
Mission), meant to reach out to the Muslim community in Gujarat.
[77]
Modi announced that he believed that
his fast would "further strengthen Gujarats environment of peace, unity and harmony."
[78]
The mission started on 17 September 2011 in Ahmedabad with a three-day fast aimed at strengthening the
atmosphere of peace, unity, and harmony in the state. He observed 36 fasts in 26 districts and 8 cities.
[79]
Some Muslims were unimpressed with his fasts, and one incident in which Modi refused to wear a skull cap
offered to him by a Muslim cleric attracted widespread criticism in the media.
[80]
When he was fasting in
Godhra, the site of the train burning that sparked the 2002 riots, a number of activists were detained for
allegedly planning rallies against Modi.
[81][82]
Others criticized his fast as a PR mission.
[83]
Modi himself
denied that the mission was about wooing "any particular community or religion".
[84]
Legislation and appointments
In 2011, the Gujarat state organisation of Congress banned the Gujarati-language TV 9 television channel
from covering its events and prohibited access to its press conferences.
[85]
Modi criticised this decision,
saying that
Journalists on Twitter who spoke against Congress, were blocked. Here they banned a TV
channel. Their crime is that they exposed cracks in the ghar nu ghar (own your home) scheme
of the Congress. Yet this party talks about democracy.
[86]
On 25 August 2011, the Governor of Gujarat, Kamla Beniwal, appointed Justice R. A. Mehta to the post of
Lokayukta of Gujarat, a critical anticorruption post that had been lying vacant since 2003. Mehta was
recommended for the post by the Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court in June 2011.
[87]
Beniwal made
this decision without consultation with and approval from Modi and his council of ministers.
[88]
This marked
the beginning of a strained relationship between Modi and Beniwal. On 25 September 2011, Modi accused
the Governor of running a parallel government in the state supported by the Indian National Congress party.
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Modi and other BJP leaders after the party's National Executive Meet. Modi was named
the chairman of Central Election Campaign Committee during this meet.
He demanded that she be recalled.
[89]
The appointment of Mehta was challenged in the High Court by the Gujarat government. The two-member
high court bench gave a split verdict on 10 October 2011. In January 2012, a third member upheld Beniwal's
decision.
[90]
Modi has also accused Beniwal of delaying a bill for reservation of 50% of seats in local government for
women.
[91]
Modi interacted with netizens on Google+on 31 August 2012.
[92]
The chat session was also broadcast live
on YouTube.
[92]
The questions were submitted before the chat, and those broadcast were mostly based on
issues about education, youth empowerment, rural development and causes of urbanisation.
[93]
The hashtag
#ModiHangout became the most trending term in India at Twitter on the day of the session, whereas
#VoteOutModi, used by Modi's opponents, became the third most trending term in the country.
[92]
The event
made Modi the first Indian politician to interact with netizens through live chat on the internet.
[94]
Further information: Gujarat legislative assembly election, 2012
In the 2012 Gujarat legislative assembly elections, Narendra Modi won the constituency of Maninagar with a
majority of 86,373 votes over Sanjiv Bhatt's wife, Shweta, who was contesting for the Indian National
Congress.
[95]
The BJP as a whole won 115 of the 182 seats; it has formed the government in Gujarat since
1995
[96]
and has had an absolute majority throughout Modi's time in office.
[97]
Later in the by-elections for six seats, the BJP won all the seats in Gujarat which consisted of four assembly
seats and 2 Lok Sabha seats. Interestingly, BJP won all these seats although Modi never campaigned for its
candidates and all the seats were held by the Congress prior to the by-elections.
[98]
This brought up the
number of seats held by the BJP in the state assembly to 119.
Role in central politics
In March 2013, Modi
was appointed as member
of the BJP Parliamentary
Board, its highest
decision-making body,
and also as a Chairman of
the party's Central
Election Campaign
Committee.
[99][100]
Modi
was selected to head the
poll campaign for 2014
parliamentary election, at
the national level executive meeting of BJP on 10 June 2012. The party's senior leader and founding member
L.K. Advani resigned from all his posts at the party following the selection, protesting against leaders who
were "concerned with their personal agendas"; the resignation was described by The Times of India as "a
protest against Narendra Modi's elevation as the chairman of the party's election committee".
[101]
However,
Advani withdrew his resignation the next day at the urging of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.
[101]
Uttarakhand floods controversy
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Modi speaking at the World
Economic Forum's India
Economic Summit 2008 in New
Delhi.
In June 2013, The Times of India released a story saying that Modi had commissioned Boeings, SUVs, and
luxury buses to rescue 15,000 Gujarati victims of the 2013 Uttarakhand floods.
[102][103]
Though the
newspaper later retracted the story issuing Clarification saying that Modi's government had assisted 15,000
UK Flood victims irrespective of states rather than rescuing 15,000 Gujaratis as earlier reported and The
Times of India was mortified by the controversy created,
[104]
the story became the center of controversy
with allegations that Modi was attempting to create a "Rambo" image in the minds of the Indian public.
[105]
The actions were widely disbelieved because of the sheer enormity of the task,
[106]
and also criticised for
giving preferential treatment to Gujaratis over other victims and for visiting the area though the government
in Uttarakhand had explicitly discouraged such visits so as to not divert attention and resources from ongoing
rescue efforts.
[107][108][109]
BJP representatives later denied that Modi himself had ever stated that he had
intervened in the rescue operation, and conceded that perhaps BJP workers had contributed to the
impression of Modi's personal involvement.
[110][111]
Possible prime-minister
In three opinion polls conducted by news agencies and magazines, Narendra Modi was the preferred choice
among Indians for the post as Prime Minister in the forthcoming parliamentary elections.
[112][113][114]
A
C-Voter poll suggested that by projecting Modi as the Prime Minister candidate, National Democratic
Alliance (NDA) can gain a five percent increase in the vote share; it said that projecting Modi can increase
NDA's seats from 179 to 220, which is 52 short of majority.
[114]
Commenting on the polls, Political scientist
Ashutosh Varshney argued that a BJP Prime Minister was unlikely unless they were able to form broad
coalitions with other parties, which so far they have not been able to do.
[115]
In an interview, Nobel Prize
laureate economist Amartya Sen, said that he did not want Modi as a Prime Minister because he had not
done enough to make minorities feel safe, and also noted that under Modi, Gujarat's record in health and
education provision has been "pretty bad".
[65]
However, economists Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind
Panagariya stated "We are impressed by Modi's economics."
[116]
Spiritual leaders like Ramdev and Morari
Bapu have supported Modi's Prime Ministerial candidacy.
[117]
To attract foreign investment in Gujarat during his time as chief minister,
Modi has made visits to countries such as China, Singapore and
Japan.
[118]
Modi visited China in November 2006 to study the Special Economic
Zones that were planned to start in Gujarat.
[119]
He also visited in
September 2007
[120]
and later in November 2011. A month after his
visit of 2011, the Chinese Government released 13 diamond traders from
India who had been jailed by the Shenzhen Customs, which Modi
described as being the consequence of his diplomatic efforts and
statesmanship.
[121][122]
In 2005 Modi was denied a diplomatic visa to the United States. In
addition, the B-1/B-2 visa that had previously been granted to him was also revoked, under a section of the
Immigration and Nationality Act which makes any foreign government official who was responsible or
"directly carried out, at any time, particularly severe violations of religious freedom" ineligible for the
visa.
[123]
In 2011, the Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry, impressed with the development of Gujarat, invited
Modi to visit Pakistan and address prominent business leaders. They also asked him to consider a flight
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between Karachi and Ahmedabad, due to the historical cultural and economic relations between the two
regions of Gujarat and Sindh. Modi wishes to help Pakistan out of its power crisis, especially in Sindh,
suggesting Pakistan can follow the 'Gujarat Model' in two ways Gujarat Solar Park and Kalpasar
Project.
[124]
The United Kingdom refused to deal with Modi for a decade following the 2002 violence but lifted its
diplomatic boycott in October 2012.
[125]
Later, in March 2013, the European Union, of which the UK is a
member, also ended its boycott, saying that talking with Modi was a separate issue from that of protecting
human rights and those of women.
[126]
In July 2013 BJP president Rajnath Singh visited the US and gave a speech urging that Modi should be given
a visa to visit the country.
[127][128]
In response to Singh's visit, 65 Members of the Indian parliament
allegedly signed a letter to US President Barack Obama requesting that the policy of denying Modi a visa be
upheld.
[129]
However, the veracity of some of the signatures has been called into question, with Sitaram
Yechury among a number of purported signatories denying that they ever signed such a petition
[130]
Modi is a vegetarian.
[131]
He is known for leading a frugal lifestyle and has a personal staff of three. He is
known to be a workaholic and an introvert.
[132]
He also writes poems in Gujarati.
[133]
He is a crowd-puller
as a speaker.
[134]
He wears "business suits to business meetings, instead of homespun tunics. He still
lampoons the urban, English-speaking elite, but he is also honing his English skills."
[22]
Modi is seen as a
"protector" by his supporters.
[22]
Modi has been labelled by the media and some articles in peer reviewed journals as a controversial,
polarising, and divisive figure.
[135][136][137]
Gujarat Ratna by Shri Poona Gujarati Bandhu Samaj at Ganesh Kala Krida Manch on celebration of
centenary year.
[138]
e-Ratna award by the Computer Society of India
[139]
Best Chief Minister In a nationwide survey conducted in 2006 by India Today magazine, Narendra
Modi was declared the Best Chief Minister in the country.
[140]
Asian Winner of the fDi Personality of the Year Award for 2009 by FDi magazine.
[141]
In March 2012, Modi appeared on the cover of the Asian edition of the Time magazine, one of India's
few politicians to have done so.
[142]
His leadership was described as being strong and businesslike;
one that could guide India towards honesty and efficiency.
[143]
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^ Afzal Guru was executed on 9 February 2013. There had been BJ P allegations that the government's delaying
of the execution for so long was an attempt to ensure that the Muslimvote was not lost.
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