Narendra Modi the self-made politician and current prime minister of
India has his hands full with Rahul Gandhi the offspring of former Indian Prime Minister's
Breathing down his neck in his pursuit to replace Modi as a prime minister of India. Let's take a look at these two leaders
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So first up is Narenda Modi. He is the 14th Prime Minister of India
He secured the largest mandate that any other Prime Minister has won since the year 1984
He was also the first Indian Prime Minister born in
Independent India. So this is after the partition narendra modi's birthday is September 17th 1950 and he was born in Gujarat
India Modi was raised in a small town in northern Gujarat and he completed an MA degree in political science from Gujarat
University and then after that he joined the pro Hindu rust' Rhea Suh AM Saavik song or the RSS
Organization in the early 1970s and that's where he set up a unit of the RSS students wing in his area
Narendra Modi continually rose up in the RSS and it was because of this and his
Association with the RSS that it really benefited his political career afterwards
Narendra Modi the BJP which is the Bharatiya Janata Party and he did that back in the year
1987 and a year later, he was made the general secretary of the Gujarat branch of this party from there
he was very instrumental and played a very important role in increasing the party's presence in the state and in
1990 neuron derp Modi was one of the
BJP members who participated in a coalition government in the state and that's where he helped the BJP achieve success in the
1995 State Legislative Assembly elections that allow the party to form its first ever
BJP controlled government in India. So that was huge now one interesting thing about Narendra Modi
It's a fact that like he had to reveal to the public
Was that he had entered into an arranged marriage as a teenager to a woman named - Shobha den
Chamanlal, so when he was filing his papers and all of that to become prime minister
he had to acknowledge that he was married and this was all after 50 years of listing himself as
unmarried so of course
He got some hate thrown his way because of that people are like can we really trust this guy?
But nevertheless Narendra Modi was elected as prime minister of India now introducing Rahul Gandhi
So rural Gandhi is a president of the Indian National Congress
Party, and he's looking to be the next prime minister of India
he is a great-grandson of Java Hara Lal Nehru the first Prime Minister of India and now his
Grandmother was also a former prime minister of India and her name was Indira Gandhi Rahul
Gandhi's father was also a former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi
He has a sister named Priyanka Gandhi who was also in politics
So you could see he has a lot of political backings like several Prime Minister's directly in his bloodline
Now Raoul Gandhi started his political career in 2004
And that's where he would then contest the May 2004 elections in his early days
He attended schools like st
Columba's Doon school and other prestigious schools and then he went to Roland's College UK to study international relations
And philosophy and all - attended Trinity College in the UK
Continuing from there Varun Gandhi worked for the monitor group in UK, and he was a management consultant and later in 2002
He became one of the directors of Mumbai based technology outsourcing firm back op service Private Limited
now getting into politics he was seen as a very
Reluctant to enter into this whole political arena but coming out of his shell
He picked up 40 members from the Indian youth Congress think-tank and National Students Union
Organization or the NC UI and he also won the Lok Sabha elections in the year
2009 now getting back to Narendra Modi looking more in depth in his career in the year 1995
He was made the Secretary of the BJP national
Organization in New Delhi India, and he was appointed as a general secretary. Just two years later
He remained in that office for another three years, but in October 2001 he replaced keshu bhai Patel
After Patel had been held
Responsible for the state government's poor response in the aftermath of the massive Bhuj earthquake
In Gujarat earlier that year Narenda Modi entered his first ever
electorial contest in the year
2002 in the month of February to be exact
by-election where he won a seat in the Gujarat State Assembly
Narendra Modi's role as chief minister during communal riots that engulfed Gujarat in 2002 was brought into question
he was accused of actually condoning the violence that broke out and it was even said that he didn't do anything at all to
Stop this
So in 2005 the United States declined to issue him a diplomatic visa
Saying that he was responsible for the riot
however
Narenda Modi continued to have political success in Gujarat and this led to him being reintegrated into
mainstream politics the BJP won again in the 2007 state assembly elections and again in the year 2012
Now during this time as head of the Gujarat government
Narendra Modi was given credit for the fast growth of the state's economy as well as the parties performing PSA's
advance Modi into becoming you know
a potential candidate for the prime minister of India and as you could tell that
Paid off because he is the current Prime Minister
Narendra Modi is up for re-election now because Indian general elections are really soon but you know
It was from May of 2018
Last year where Raul Gandhi began to really trail behind Prime Minister
Narendra Modi as the popular choice for prime minister in the 2019 general elections
So the general elections haven't happened yet
Probably when this video posted, you know, the the time period between the elections has started already may not but anyways
We don't have the results yet
So let me know down below
Who you would select as a Prime Minister Narendra Modi or raul?
gandhi sound off down below
but you know many people are in favor of Narendra Modi's still being in power because of some of the
amazing achievements that he accomplished during his time as Prime Minister and even leading up to that you see in December 8th of
2014 Time magazine had named Narendra Modi as a person of the year. Also on January 15 20 50 in the u.s
dismissed the lawsuit that charge Modi with crimes against humanity and you know
Another thing that was really big was on July 4th
2017 Prime Minister Modi became the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel
And this was to mark 25 years of diplomatic relations between India and Israel and on top of that on August 15
2018 during his Independence speech Modi announced that India will launch its first mad mission to space by the Year
2022 shifting gears now back to raul gandhi
so in his first interview with foreign media
raul Gandhi was really portrayed as someone who would unite India and spoke against divisive Ness in
politics in India and he said that he would reduce caste and religious tensions as well Rahul Gandhi won the
2004 elections for his father's former
constituency of
Amity in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha and if you're not familiar the Lok Sabha is India's lower house of parliament
And he want this with a margin of over
100,000 until 2006 he didn't hold any other office
besides this now Raoul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka managed their mother's campaign for re-election to Rae Bareli in
2006 which was won with a victory margin of over
400,000 votes so he was a prominent figure in the Congress campaign for the
2007 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections Congress, however
122 seats of the 403 seats with
8.53
percent of the votes now in September of
2007 one rule Gandhi was appointed as a general
secretary in charge of the Indian youth congress or the iyc and as well as a
National Students Union of India the NSU I
He gave his word to reform youth politics under Gandhi's leadership the iyc and the NSU. I
had seen a dramatic increase of members from
200,000 members all the way to 2.5 million members select
You can clearly see there that Raul Gandhi's influence like really made like a massive difference there in May of 2011
Gandhi was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police. This is after he came out in support of
agitating farmers
Demanding more compensation for their land being acquired for highway projects and things like that
So Gandhi was taken away from the protest side and he was later given bail
so there's always some bumps in the road when it comes to politics now Rahul Gandhi also campaigned during the
2012 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and within the span of almost two months
He held two hundred rallies
However, Congress ranked as the fourth party in the state winning only 28 seats
But as of early 2018 role Gandhi trailed behind the current Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the popular choice for prime minister
in the 2019 general elections
so you see these two men Narendra Modi and Raul Gandhi have both had their fair share of
Accomplishments challenges and criticism, who would you want to be Prime Minister of India?
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