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	\|{{cite web \|title='Messianic spell': how Narendra Modi created a cult of personality \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/messianic-spell-how-narendra-modi-created-a-cult-personality \|date=19 April 2024 \|first=Hannah \|last=Ellis-Petersen \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240419152154/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/messianic-spell-how-narendra-modi-created-a-cult-personality \|archive-date=19 April 2024 \|website=[[The Guardian]]}}		\|{{cite web \|title='Messianic spell': how Narendra Modi created a cult of personality \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/messianic-spell-how-narendra-modi-created-a-cult-personality \|date=19 April 2024 \|first=Hannah \|last=Ellis-Petersen \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240419152154/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/messianic-spell-how-narendra-modi-created-a-cult-personality \|archive-date=19 April 2024 \|website=[[The Guardian]]}}
	}}}}<ref>{{citation\|last1=Welzel\|first1=Christian\|last2=Inglehart\|first2=Ronald\|last3=Bernhangen\|first3=Patrick\|last4=Haerpfer\|first4=Christian W.\|editor1-last=Welzel \|editor1-first=Christian\|editor2-last=Inglehart\|editor2-first=Ronald\|editor3-last=Bernhangen\|editor3-first=Patrick\|editor4-last=Haerpfer \|editor4-first=Christian W. \|chapter=Introduction \|title=Democratization \|year=2019\|pages=4, 7\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0IN8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA7\|publisher=Oxford University Press \|isbn=978-0-19-873228-0}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|last=Chidambaram\|first=Soundarya\|chapter=India's Inexorable Path to Autocratization: Looking beyond Modi and the populist lens \|year=2022 \|title=Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in South Asia\|editor-last=Widmalm\|editor-first=Sten\|publisher=Routledge\|pages=130–148\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fNBUEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT138\|doi= 10.4324/9781003042211-11\|s2cid=245210210\|doi-access=free}}</ref> As prime minister, he has received [[Opinion polling on the Narendra Modi premiership\|consistently high approval ratings]].<ref name="Kaul">{{cite book\|last1=Kaul \|first1=Volker \|title=Minorities and Populism – Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe \|last2=Vajpeyi \|first2=Ananya \|publisher=[[Springer Publishing]] \|year=2020 \|isbn=978-3-030-34098-8 \|pages=22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=Global Leader Approval Ratings \|url=https://morningconsult.com/global-leader-approval/ \|access-date=9 September 2022 \|website=[[Morning Consult]] \|language=en-US \|archive-date=28 November 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128023901/https://morningconsult.com/global-leader-approval/ \|url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|title=PM Narendra Modi continues to be most popular global leader with approval rating of 74%: Survey \|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/pm-narendra-modi-continues-to-be-most-popular-global-leader-with-approval-rating-of-74-survey/articleshow/93527036.cms \|access-date=9 September 2022 \|website=[[The Times of India]] \|date=12 August 2022 \|language=en \|archive-date=9 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220909053544/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/pm-narendra-modi-continues-to-be-most-popular-global-leader-with-approval-rating-of-74-survey/articleshow/93527036.cms \|url-status=live }}</ref> Modi has been described as engineering a political realignment towards [[right-wing politics]]. He remains a controversial figure domestically and internationally, over his Hindu nationalist beliefs and handling of the Gujarat riots, which have been cited as evidence of a majoritarian and exclusionary social agenda.{{efn\|Sources discussing the controversy surrounding Modi:<ref name="Buncombe">{{cite news\|title=A rebirth dogged by controversy \|first=Andrew \|last=Buncombe \|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/a-rebirth-dogged-by-controversy-2357157.html \|work=[[The Independent]] \|date=19 September 2011 \|access-date=10 October 2012 \|location=London \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111225024707/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/a-rebirth-dogged-by-controversy-2357157.html \|archive-date=25 December 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|last=Visweswaran \|first=Kamala \|title=Perspectives on Modern South Asia: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation\|date=April 2011\|publisher=[[Wiley-Blackwell]] \|isbn=978-1-4051-0062-5\|page=188\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m-EYXNnvMugC\|oclc=682895189\|editor=Visweswaran, Kamala\|access-date=30 August 2021}}</ref><ref name="Stepan">{{cite journal\|last1=Stepan \|first1=Alfred \|s2cid=153861198 \|title=India, Sri Lanka, and the Majoritarian Danger \|journal=[[Journal of Democracy]] \|volume=26 \|pages=128–140 \|language=en \|doi=10.1353/jod.2015.0006 \|date=7 January 2015}}</ref><ref name="Ganguly 2014-10" /><ref>{{cite news\|title=Indian PM Narendra Modi still mired in controversy, says expert\|publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]\|date=16 April 2015\|access-date=17 February 2017\|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/indian-pm-narendra-modi-still-mired-in-controversy-says-expert-1.3036836\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014073116/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/indian-pm-narendra-modi-still-mired-in-controversy-says-expert-1.3036836\|archive-date=14 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine\|title=India's Voters Torn Over Politician \|first=Simon \|last=Robinson \|url=http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1693370,00.html \|magazine=[[Time (magazine)\|Time]] \|date=11 December 2007 \|access-date=10 October 2012 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023030008/http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1693370,00.html \|archive-date=23 October 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|title=Gujarat leader Narendra Modi grilled for 10 hours at massacre inquiry \|first1=Jason \|last1=Burke \|author-link=Jason Burke \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/28/gujarat-narendra-modi-massacre-inquiry-india \|newspaper=[[The Guardian]] \|date=28 March 2010 \|access-date=10 October 2012 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909181320/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/28/gujarat-narendra-modi-massacre-inquiry-india \|archive-date=9 September 2013 }}</ref>\|name=\|group=}}		}}}}<ref>{{citation\|last1=Welzel\|first1=Christian\|last2=Inglehart\|first2=Ronald\|last3=Bernhangen\|first3=Patrick\|last4=Haerpfer\|first4=Christian W.\|editor1-last=Welzel \|editor1-first=Christian\|editor2-last=Inglehart\|editor2-first=Ronald\|editor3-last=Bernhangen\|editor3-first=Patrick\|editor4-last=Haerpfer \|editor4-first=Christian W. \|chapter=Introduction \|title=Democratization \|year=2019\|pages=4, 7\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0IN8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA7\|publisher=Oxford University Press \|isbn=978-0-19-873228-0}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|last=Chidambaram\|first=Soundarya\|chapter=India's Inexorable Path to Autocratization: Looking beyond Modi and the populist lens \|year=2022 \|title=Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in South Asia\|editor-last=Widmalm\|editor-first=Sten\|publisher=Routledge\|pages=130–148\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fNBUEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT138\|doi= 10.4324/9781003042211-11\|s2cid=245210210\|doi-access=free}}</ref> As prime minister, he has received [[Opinion polling on the Narendra Modi premiership\|consistently high approval ratings]].<ref name="Kaul">{{cite book\|last1=Kaul \|first1=Volker \|title=Minorities and Populism – Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe \|last2=Vajpeyi \|first2=Ananya \|publisher=[[Springer Publishing]] \|year=2020 \|isbn=978-3-030-34098-8 \|pages=22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=Global Leader Approval Ratings \|url=https://morningconsult.com/global-leader-approval/ \|access-date=9 September 2022 \|website=[[Morning Consult]] \|language=en-US \|archive-date=28 November 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128023901/https://morningconsult.com/global-leader-approval/ \|url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|title=PM Narendra Modi continues to be most popular global leader with approval rating of 74%: Survey \|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/pm-narendra-modi-continues-to-be-most-popular-global-leader-with-approval-rating-of-74-survey/articleshow/93527036.cms \|access-date=9 September 2022 \|website=[[The Times of India]] \|date=12 August 2022 \|language=en \|archive-date=9 September 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220909053544/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/pm-narendra-modi-continues-to-be-most-popular-global-leader-with-approval-rating-of-74-survey/articleshow/93527036.cms \|url-status=live }}</ref> Modi has been described as engineering a political realignment towards [[right-wing politics]]. He remains a controversial figure domestically and internationally, over his Hindu nationalist beliefs and handling of the Gujarat riots, which have been cited as evidence of a majoritarian and exclusionary social agenda.{{efn\|Sources discussing the controversy surrounding Modi:<ref name="Buncombe">{{cite news\|title=A rebirth dogged by controversy \|first=Andrew \|last=Buncombe \|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/a-rebirth-dogged-by-controversy-2357157.html \|work=[[The Independent]] \|date=19 September 2011 \|access-date=10 October 2012 \|location=London \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111225024707/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/a-rebirth-dogged-by-controversy-2357157.html \|archive-date=25 December 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|last=Visweswaran \|first=Kamala \|title=Perspectives on Modern South Asia: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation\|date=April 2011\|publisher=[[Wiley-Blackwell]] \|isbn=978-1-4051-0062-5\|page=188\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m-EYXNnvMugC\|oclc=682895189\|editor=Visweswaran, Kamala\|access-date=30 August 2021}}</ref><ref name="Stepan">{{cite journal\|last1=Stepan \|first1=Alfred \|s2cid=153861198 \|title=India, Sri Lanka, and the Majoritarian Danger \|journal=[[Journal of Democracy]] \|volume=26 \|pages=128–140 \|language=en \|doi=10.1353/jod.2015.0006 \|date=7 January 2015}}</ref><ref name="Ganguly 2014-10" /><ref>{{cite news\|title=Indian PM Narendra Modi still mired in controversy, says expert\|publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]\|date=16 April 2015\|access-date=17 February 2017\|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/indian-pm-narendra-modi-still-mired-in-controversy-says-expert-1.3036836\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014073116/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/indian-pm-narendra-modi-still-mired-in-controversy-says-expert-1.3036836\|archive-date=14 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine\|title=India's Voters Torn Over Politician \|first=Simon \|last=Robinson \|url=http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1693370,00.html \|magazine=[[Time (magazine)\|Time]] \|date=11 December 2007 \|access-date=10 October 2012 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023030008/http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1693370,00.html \|archive-date=23 October 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|title=Gujarat leader Narendra Modi grilled for 10 hours at massacre inquiry \|first1=Jason \|last1=Burke \|author-link=Jason Burke \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/28/gujarat-narendra-modi-massacre-inquiry-india \|newspaper=[[The Guardian]] \|date=28 March 2010 \|access-date=10 October 2012 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909181320/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/28/gujarat-narendra-modi-massacre-inquiry-india \|archive-date=9 September 2013 }}</ref>\|name=\|group=}}

	== Early life and education ==		== Early life and education ==
	Narendra Damodardas Modi was born on 17 September 1950 to a [[Gujarati people\|Gujarati]] family of [[Other Backward Class]] (OBC) background and [[Hinduism\|Hindu]] faith<ref>{{#invoke:cite\|book\|last=Messina \|first=Karyne E. \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fKN-EAAAQBAJ&dq=%22modi%22+%22caste%22+%22obc%22+%22ghanchi%22&pg=PT78 \|title=Resurgence of Global Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy \|date=21 September 2022 \|publisher=Taylor & Francis \|isbn=978-1-000-64640-5 \|language=en \|access-date=7 April 2024 \|archive-date=8 April 2024 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240408063906/https://books.google.com/books?id=fKN-EAAAQBAJ&dq=%22modi%22+%22caste%22+%22obc%22+%22ghanchi%22&pg=PT78 \|url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite\|news\|last=Rashid \|first=Omar \|date=27 April 2019 \|title=Modi hits back on 'fake OBC' jibes, says he is 'most backward' \|url=https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha-2019/modi-hits-back-on-fake-obc-jibes-says-he-is-most-backward/article61557945.ece \|access-date=6 April 2024 \|work=The Hindu \|language=en-IN \|issn=0971-751X \|archive-date=25 August 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230825204014/https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha-2019/modi-hits-back-on-fake-obc-jibes-says-he-is-most-backward/article61557945.ece \|url-status=live }}</ref> in [[Vadnagar]], [[Mehsana district]], [[Bombay State]] (present-day [[Gujarat]]). He was the third of six children born to Damodardas Mulchand Modi ({{Circa\|1915–1989}}) and Hiraben Modi (1923–2022).{{sfn\|Marino\|2014\|pp=13, 15, 29–30, 74}}{{Efn\|''Narendra Modi'' was born ''Narendra Damodardas Modi'' on 17 September 1950. He uses ''Damodardas'' as his middle name—[[Gujarati people\|Gujaratis]] have a tradition of [[Patronymic\|using the names of their fathers]] as their middle names—but he is widely known as ''Narendra Modi''.{{sfn\|Marino\|2014\|pp=4–5}}\|name="foo"\|group=}}<ref>{{#invoke:cite\|news\|title=Heeraben Modi: Indian PM Modi's mother dies aged 99 \|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-64073465 \|access-date=30 December 2022 \|publisher=BBC \|date=30 December 2022}}</ref> According to Modi and his neighbours, he worked infrequently in his father's tea stall in the [[Vadnagar railway station]].<ref>{{citation\|last1=Chatterji\|first1=Angana P.\|last2=Hansen\|first2=Thomas Blom\|last3=Jaffrelot\|first3=Christophe\|editor1-last=Chatterji\|editor1-first=Angana P.\|editor2-last=Hansen\|editor2-first=Thomas Blom\|editor3-last=Jaffrelot\|editor3-first=Christophe\|chapter=Introduction\|title=Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism Is Changing India\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|year=2019\|page=3\|isbn=978-0-19-007817-1\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcObDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|last=Roberts\|first=Adam\|title=Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation: The Relentless Invention of Modern India\|publisher=Public Affairs\|year=2017\|isbn=978-1-61039-670-7\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9tLuDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT212}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|last=Roberts\|first=Adam\|title=Special Report, India: Modi's many tasks\|publisher=Economist\|location=London\|date=23 May 2015\|url=https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/20150523_india.pdf\|access-date=22 December 2021\|archive-date=22 December 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211222022910/https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/20150523_india.pdf\|url-status=live}}</ref>		Narendra Damodardas Modi was born on 17 September 1950 to a [[Gujarati people\|Gujarati]] family of [[Other Backward Class]] (OBC) background and [[Hinduism\|Hindu]] faith<ref>{{#invoke:cite\|book\|last=Messina \|first=Karyne E. \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fKN-EAAAQBAJ&dq=%22modi%22+%22caste%22+%22obc%22+%22ghanchi%22&pg=PT78 \|title=Resurgence of Global Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy \|date=21 September 2022 \|publisher=Taylor & Francis \|isbn=978-1-000-64640-5 \|language=en \|access-date=7 April 2024 \|archive-date=8 April 2024 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240408063906/https://books.google.com/books?id=fKN-EAAAQBAJ&dq=%22modi%22+%22caste%22+%22obc%22+%22ghanchi%22&pg=PT78 \|url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite\|news\|last=Rashid \|first=Omar \|date=27 April 2019 \|title=Modi hits back on 'fake OBC' jibes, says he is 'most backward' \|url=https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha-2019/modi-hits-back-on-fake-obc-jibes-says-he-is-most-backward/article61557945.ece \|access-date=6 April 2024 \|work=The Hindu \|language=en-IN \|issn=0971-751X \|archive-date=25 August 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230825204014/https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha-2019/modi-hits-back-on-fake-obc-jibes-says-he-is-most-backward/article61557945.ece \|url-status=live }}</ref> in [[Vadnagar]], [[Mehsana district]], [[Bombay State]] (present-day [[Gujarat]]). He was the third of six children born to Damodardas Mulchand Modi ({{Circa\|1915–1989}}) and Hiraben Modi (1923–2022).{{sfn\|Marino\|2014\|pp=13, 15, 29–30, 74}}{{Efn\|''Narendra Modi'' was born ''Narendra Damodardas Modi'' on 17 September 1950. He uses ''Damodardas'' as his middle name—[[Gujarati people\|Gujaratis]] have a tradition of [[Patronymic\|using the names of their fathers]] as their middle names—but he is widely known as ''Narendra Modi''.{{sfn\|Marino\|2014\|pp=4–5}}\|name="foo"\|group=}}<ref>{{#invoke:cite\|news\|title=Heeraben Modi: Indian PM Modi's mother dies aged 99 \|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-64073465 \|access-date=30 December 2022 \|publisher=BBC \|date=30 December 2022}}</ref> According to Modi and his neighbours, he worked infrequently in his father's tea stall in the [[Vadnagar railway station]].<ref>{{citation\|last1=Chatterji\|first1=Angana P.\|last2=Hansen\|first2=Thomas Blom\|last3=Jaffrelot\|first3=Christophe\|editor1-last=Chatterji\|editor1-first=Angana P.\|editor2-last=Hansen\|editor2-first=Thomas Blom\|editor3-last=Jaffrelot\|editor3-first=Christophe\|chapter=Introduction\|title=Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism Is Changing India\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|year=2019\|page=3\|isbn=978-0-19-007817-1\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcObDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|last=Roberts\|first=Adam\|title=Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation: The Relentless Invention of Modern India\|publisher=Public Affairs\|year=2017\|isbn=978-1-61039-670-7\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9tLuDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT212}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|last=Roberts\|first=Adam\|title=Special Report, India: Modi's many tasks\|publisher=Economist\|location=London\|date=23 May 2015\|url=https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/20150523_india.pdf\|access-date=22 December 2021\|archive-date=22 December 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211222022910/https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/20150523_india.pdf\|url-status=live}}</ref>

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	'''Narendra Damodardas Modi''' ({{IPA-gu\|ˈnəɾendɾə dɑmodəɾˈdɑs ˈmodiː\|lang\|Narendra Modi pronouncing his name at swearing in 2014.ogg}}; born 17 September 1950){{Efn\|''Narendra Modi'' was born ''Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi'' on 17 September 1950. He uses ''Damodardas'' as his middle name—[[Gujarati people\|Gujaratis]] have a tradition of using the names of their fathers as their middle names—but he is widely known as ''Narendra Modi''. {{harvard citation\|Marino\|2014\|pp=4–5}}\|name="foo"\|group=}} is an Indian politician serving as the [[List of Prime Ministers of India\|14th]] and current [[Prime Minister of India]] since 2014. Modi was the [[List of chief ministers of Gujarat\|Chief Minister of Gujarat]] from 2001 to 2014 and is the [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha\|Member of Parliament]] from [[Varanasi (Lok Sabha constituency)\|Varanasi]]. He is a member of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP) and of the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] (RSS), a right-wing [[Hindutva\|Hindu nationalist]] paramilitary volunteer organisation. He is the longest serving prime minister from outside the [[Indian National Congress]].		'''Narendra Damodardas Modi''' ({{IPA-gu\|ˈnəɾendɾə dɑmodəɾˈdɑs ˈmodiː\|lang\|Narendra Modi pronouncing his name at swearing in 2014.ogg}}; born 17 September 1950){{Efn\|''Narendra Modi'' was born ''Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi'' on 17 September 1950. He uses ''Damodardas'' as his middle name—[[Gujarati people\|Gujaratis]] have a tradition of using the names of their fathers as their middle names—but he is widely known as ''Narendra Modi''. {{harvard citation\|Marino\|2014\|pp=4–5}}\|name="foo"\|group=}} is an Indian politician serving as the [[List of Prime Ministers of India\|14th]] and current [[Prime Minister of India]] since 2014. Modi was the [[List of chief ministers of Gujarat\|Chief Minister of Gujarat]] from 2001 to 2014 and is the [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha\|Member of Parliament]] from [[Varanasi (Lok Sabha constituency)\|Varanasi]]. He is a member of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP) and of the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] (RSS), a right-wing [[Hindutva\|Hindu nationalist]] paramilitary volunteer organisation. He is the longest serving prime minister from outside the [[Indian National Congress]].

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	{{Short description\|Prime Minister of India since 2014~~<!-- Do NOT add counts or ordinals, as per [[WP:CONSENSUS]] -->~~}}		{{Short description\|Prime Minister of India since 2014}}
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