Narendra Modi is the current Prime Minister of India and represents the Bharatiya Janata Party. He has been the Chief Minister of Gujarat for four consecutive terms. Modi was born in 1950 in Vadnagar, Gujarat and helped his father sell tea as a child before joining the RSS at age eight. He left home after graduating to avoid an arranged marriage and became a full-time worker for the RSS in 1971. Modi held several positions for the BJP until being elected Prime Minister in 2014.