Narendra Modi is the 15th Prime minister of India. He was the three times chief minister of Indian state Gujrat. After the great governance in Gujrat, now he is working to make India great again. Lets know more about this great leader of our time by these amazing facts about Modi -
1. Narendra Modi secured the largest mandate any Indian prime minister has won since 1984 in the country's general election in April 2016.
2. 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.
3. Modi is the first prime minister of India, who born in the independent India.
4. Modi was only granted a visa to visit the United States when he was elected leader, as the US government denied one for nine years for his failure to stop communal riots that killed more than 1,000 people – the majority of them were Muslims – when he was chief leader of the state of Gujarat.
5. He is the most-followed Asian leader on Twitter and is constantly tweeting and checking his Facebook account.
6. Shinzo Abe is a highly nationalistic person and always tweets in Japanese. He tweeted in English for the first time on May 20th, 2014 in order to congratulate Narendra Modi. Also, Shinzo Abe follows only three people on Twitter: one of his ministers, his wife and Narendra Modi.
7. Modi has more than 12-million followers on Twitter, which places him second as the world’s most followed leaders after USA former President Barak Obama.
8. He fasts all nine days during Navratra every year – eating only one fruit a day during this time.
9. Yes, one among the numerous interesting facts about Modi is that he had undertaken a three months course in the United States where he was given lessons on image management and public relations. The lessons he learnt in the US and his leadership qualities have blended in proportion to build a personality that has stirred billions.
10. He aspired to become a sanyasi as a child and in his late teenage years he ventured on an unknown journey and travelled from one place to another. The places he sojourned included Ramakrishna Mission of Rajkot and Belur Math and finally landed in the Himalayan ranges where he spent about a couple of years with the sadhus, and lived a life of a gypsy.
11. As a teenager, he enthusiastically participated in the 1965 Indo-Pak war, not as a soldier but as an aid to the soldiers at the railway stations during their journey.
12. This is a word this illustrious leader does not relate to. He has been the Chief Minister of Gujarat for a span of thirteen years and during his term in office he did not take any leave. He is a workaholic and work tops the priority list of Modi. He never have more than 3 people in his personal staff.
13. He is an early riser and has been maintaining a steady wake up time of 5- 5.30am regardless of the season or any other factor. Even if he sleeps late at night, there are no amends made to his wake up time.
14. When he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat, he was instrumental in improving the state’s financial condition making it one of the best investment hubs for business magnates. His government ensured that every village in Gujarat receives electricity and the ‘Jyotigram Yojana’ was formulated to turn this vision into a reality. Ahmedabad, which is the largest city of Gujarat, ranked third in World’s fastest growing states list by Forbes in the year 2010. The first two in the list are Chinese cities Chongqing and Chengdu.
15. He has amazing will power and has lot of energy to work whole day, at the time of general election 2014 Modi travelled more than 3 lakh kilometres and 25 Indian states for his campaign and rallies.
