Happy Birthday : Narendra Damodardas Modi [17th of September ]

17 September 2014 :: Narendra Damodardas Modi born on 17^th of September 1950 to a family of grocers belonging to the backward Ghanchi-Teli (oil-presser) community, in Vadnagar in Mehsana district of erstwhile Bombay State ( present-day Gujarat), India. He is the 15th and current Prime Minister of India. He is the first Prime minister to be born after Indian Independence. Narendra Modi was sworn in as Prime Minister on 26 May 2014 at the Rastrapati Bhavan. Modi, He is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), also served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat state from 2001 to 2014. He is currently the Member of Parliament (MP) from Varanasi.

Modi was the third of six children born to Damodardas Mulchand Modi and his wife, Heeraben. He helped his father sell tea at Vadnagar railway station. As a child and as a teenager, he ran a tea stall with his brother near a bus terminus. In 1967, he completed his schooling in Vadnagar, where a teacher described him as being an average student, but a keen debater who had an interest in theatre. Modi is a vegetarian. He has a frugal lifestyle, is a workaholic and an introvert. He writes poems in Gujarati