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PM Narendra Modi Birthday: 10 interesting things you would like to know about the Prime Minister

Updated on: 17 September,2022 11:52 AM IST  |  Mumbai
Compiled by: Asif Rizvi | asif.ali@mid-day.com

PM Narendra Modi is at number three among his six siblings

PM Narendra Modi Birthday: 10 interesting things you would like to know about the Prime Minister

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Pic/AFP

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been planning to make Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday special. The party will reportedly organise 'Unity in Diversity' festival in all the districts under the 'Seva' Campaign.' This campaign will start on the occasion of PM Modi's birthday on September 17 and will end on October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. On PM Modi's birthday, here are 10 interesting facts about India's Prime Minister.


PM Modi was born on September 17, 1950. 


PM Narendra Modi is at number three among his six siblings. 


PM Modi has five brothers and one sister.

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PM Narendra Modi has been the 14th Chief Minister of Gujarat and with his development plans, the people of Gujarat elected him as the Chief Minister for 4 consecutive times.

PM Modi's father, Damodardas Modi had a tea stall at the local railway station in Vadnagar, where he used to sell tea.

He served tea to soldiers passing through the station during the Indo-Pak war in 1965.

As a child, PM Narendra Modi helped his father at the tea shop and also concentrated on his studies and sports.

PM Modi worked as a prachark in the RSS and continued to work for the country as a volunteer. He had participated in the Jana Sangh Satyagraha under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Delhi in the year 1971.

In 2001, he became the Chief Minister of Gujarat for the first time. He remained invincible to the opposition parties. Till the year 2014, he was the chief minister of Gujarat.

In the year 2014, under the leadership of Narendra Modi, BJP won a full majority power for the first time.

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