N arendra Modi Narendra Damodardas Modi was born on 17 September 1950 to a Gujarati Hindu 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). *NARENDRA MODI Narendra Damodardas Modi ( Gujarati: [ˈnəɾendɾə dɑmodəɾˈdɑs ˈmodiː] ( listen ) ; born 17 September 1950) [a] is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current prime minister of India since 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament from Varanasi . He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ...