“I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.”

Indian politician, prime minister of India since 2014

Narendra Modi is an Indian politician who has served as prime minister of India since 2014. He is also the Member of Parliament for Varanasi and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Before becoming prime minister, he was chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014. He is India’s third-longest-serving prime minister and the longest-serving one outside the Indian National Congress.