He became the chief minister of Gujarat in October 2001, promoted to the office at a time when his predecessor Keshubhai Patel had resigned, following the defeat of BJP in the by-elections. His tenure as chief minister began on 7 October 2001.[3] In July 2007, he became the longest serving Chief Minister in Gujarat's history when he had been in power for 2063 days continuously.[4] He was elected again for a third term[5] on 23 December 2007 in the state elections, which he had cast as a "referendum on his rule"
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Personal life
Modi was born to a middle-class family in Vadnagar in Mehsana district of what was thenBombay State, India.[8] Modi is a vegetarian.[9] During the Indo-Pak war in the mid sixties, even as a young boy, he volunteered to serve the soldiers in transit at railway stations.[10]As a young man, he joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, a student organisation and was involved in the anti-corruption Nav Nirmāṇ ("Reconstruction") Movement. After working as a full-time organiser for the organisation, he was later nominated as its representative in the Bharatiya Janata Party.[11] As a teenager Modi used to run a tea stall with his brother.[12] Modi completed his schooling in Vadnagar. He earned a masters degree in political science from Gujarat University.[13]
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Early activism and politics
Modi was a pracharak (campaigner) in the RSS during