Narendra Damodardas Modi
Narendra Modi India's 14 Prime Minister Early Life and Education Narendra Modi was born on 17 September 1950 in the state Gujarat to a Hindu family. He was sixth child to Damodardas Modi and Hiraben Modi. As a child Narendra Modi used to help his father at the railway to sell tea at the Vadnagar Railway Station. Narendra Modi completed his higher education in Vadnagar in 1967 where his teacher described him as an average child. When eight years old, Modi was introduced to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and began attending its local (training sessions). There, Modi met Lakshmanrao Inamdar, popularly known as Vakil Saheb, who inducted him as a balswayamsevak (junior cadet) in the RSS and became his political mentor. While Modi was training with the RSS, he also met Vasant Gajendragadkar and Nathalal Jaghda Bharatiya Jana Sangh leaders who were founding members of the BJP's Gujarat unit in 1980. Modi spent the ensuing two years travelling across Northern and North easte...