Public image of Narendra Modi Public image of Narendra Modi Narendra Modi, the 14th Prime Minister of India, has elicited a number of public perceptions regarding his personality and background. A vegetarian, Modi is Hindu and is a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party. He is married but has nothing to do with his wife and kept the marriage secret for most of his career. Adept at using social media, in September 2014 Modi became the second-most-followed leader in the world with 5 million Twitter subscribers. Modi's 31 August 2012 post on Google Hangouts made him the first Indian politician to
Narendra Modi labour laws. Credited with engineering a political realignment towards right-wing politics, Modi remains a figure of controversy domestically and internationally over his Hindu nationalist beliefs and his role during the 2002 Gujarat riots, cited as evidence of an exclusionary social agenda. Narendra Modi was born on 17 September 1950 to a family of grocers in Vadnagar, Mehsana district, Bombay State (present-day Gujarat). He was the third of six children born to Damodardas Mulchand Modi (c.1915 – 1989) and Hiraben Modi (born c.1920). Modi's family belonged to the Modh-Ghanchi-Teli (oil-presser) community, which is categorised as an Other Backward Class by the