Some Facts About Indian PM Shri Narendra Modi
1. Narendra Modi is India's 15th prime minister. He secured the largest mandate any Indian prime minister has won since 1984 in the country's mammoth general election in April. 2. Modi is the leader of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). 3. Modi holds a cult of personality status in India, which is just under 80% Hindu. He is criticised by some minority groups and the left-wing media for his conservative values, with some saying the BJP has bred a culture of intolerance towards minorities. 4. He was entered into an arranged marriage as a teenager to Jashodaben Chimanlal. When he filed his nomination for prime minister, he was forced to acknowledge the marriage after nearly five decades of claiming to be single. 5. Modi was born on 17 September 1950 in Vadnagar, Gujarat, making him the country's first prime minister born in independent India. Indian prime minister Narendra Modi makes a rare visit to the UK 6. Modi was only granted a visa to