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Has Narendra Modi earned BA and MA degrees

“Has Narendra Modi passed BA and MA?”
Yes, both degrees
Confidence: High Checked on August 29, 2026

Summary

Narendra Modi earned a B.A. degree in 1978 and later completed an M.A. in political science from Gujarat University. Official confirmations confirm both qualifications.

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pmindia.gov.in
  • Know the PM | Prime Minister of India

    In his initial years, he worked ... working with the Bharatiya Janata Party organization at National and State level. Shri Modi completed his MA in political science from Gujarat University. Narendra Modi is a ‘People’s Leader’, dedicated to solving their problems and ...

factcheck.afp.com
bbc.com
  • BBC Audio | The Media Show | BBC's Modi documentary controversy

    The documentary explores tensions between Narendra Modi and India's Muslim minority. The Indian government says it has ordered Twitter and YouTube to take down video clips from the documentary, but what are the implications for press freedom in India? Also in the programme, how Spotify's podcast strategy is changing and what it means for how we listen to radio and podcasts in the future. Guests: Rishi Iyengar, staff writer at Foreign Policy magazine; Supriya Sharma, Executive Editor of the news website Scroll; Raman Jit Singh Chima, Asia policy director at Access Now; Nick Hilton, podcast industry analyst and founder of Podot; Arielle Nissenblatt, founder of the EarBuds Podcast Collective newsletter.

simple.wikipedia.org
  • Narendra Modi - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    He was later elected as the prime minister in May 2014. He is a member of the right-wing-Bharatiya Janata Party. He is the first Indian prime minister to be born after the country's independence from the British Empire in 1947. Narendra Modi was born into a Gujarati family in Vadnagar. As a child, he used to help his father, who ran a tea stall at Vadnagar railway station. Later, he and his brother ran a tea stall of their own at a bus terminus. In 1978, Modi received a B.A. degree ...

en.wikipedia.org
  • Narendra Modi - Wikipedia

    He remains a controversial figure ... violence, which have been cited as evidence of a majoritarian and exclusionary social agenda. Narendra Damodardas Modi was born on 17 September 1950 to a Gujarati family of Other Backward Class (OBC) background and Hindu faith in Vadnagar, ...

janataweekly.org
  • Why the Controversy About Modi’s Degrees is a Test for Indian Democracy – Janata Weekly

    The university challenged this order in the High Court, citing privacy concerns. The recent judgement related to this case. ... Does the degree really matter? After all, the Constitution does not prescribe educational qualifications for becoming prime minister.

  • Why the Controversy About Modi’s Degrees is a Test for Indian Democracy | Janata Weekly

    The use of a modern, computer-generated font (like Times New Roman, which was created in 1931 but only became widespread with desktop publishing in the 1980s and ’90s) on a document supposedly from 1979 raised serious doubts about its authenticity, critics claimed. Seven days after Amit Shah’s press conference, Chandan Nandy published Modi’s marksheets for his BA examination along with one of his contemporary’s in The Quint and noted six purported discrepancies. The Aam Adami Party looked into the matter and said that no one named “Narendra Damoderdas Modi” had passed out of the Delhi University in 1978, as Modi had claimed in his 2014 affidavit.

theprint.in
  • PM Modi’s degree is not important. The truth is

    No corroborative evidence was produced that a course in “Entire Political Science” exists in any university. So far, no university classmates of Modi have come forward. Modi himself has claimed in speeches that he does not have a formal ...

genspark.ai

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