THE COMMON MAN WHO BECAME THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA – NARENDRA MODI

Narendra Damodardas Modi
Born: September 17, 1950 (age 64), Vadnagar, India
Spouse: Jashodaben Modi (m. 1968)
Party: Bharatiya Janata Party
Education: Gujarat University (1983), University of Delhi (1978)
Parents: Heeraben Modi, Damodardas Mulchand Modi
Siblings: Pankaj Modi, Prahlad Modi, Vasantiben Hasmukhlal Modi, Soma Modi.

Personality:
-vegetarian.
-frugal lifestyle
-workaholic
-introvert
-writes poems in Gujarati
-Great Public speaker
-He emerged as social media savvy politician and since September 2014 is the second most followed leader in the world with over 6 million followers on Twitter
-His interaction on Google Hangouts on 31 August 2012 made Modi the first Indian politician to interact with netizens through live chat on the internet
Awards and recognitions:

1. Gujarat Ratna by Shri Poona Gujarati Bandhu Samaj at Ganesh Kala Krida Manch on celebration of centenary year.
2. e-Ratna award by the Computer Society of India.
3. Best Chief Minister – In a nationwide survey conducted in 2007 by India Today magazine, Narendra Modi was declared the Best Chief Minister in the country.
4. Asian Winner of the fDi Personality of the Year award for 2009 by FDi magazine.
5. In March 2012, Modi appeared on the cover of the Asian edition of Time, one of India's few politicians to have done so.
6. Modi was featured in Time's 2014 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
7. Modi has become the most followed Asian leader on Twitter.
8. In 2014, he was ranked as the 15th most powerful person in the world by Forbes.