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Narendra Damodardas Modi was born on 17 September 1950 to a  Gujarati   Hindu  family of grocers in  Vadnagar ,  Mehsana district , Gujarat . He was the third of six children born to Damodardas Mulchand Modi and Hiraben Modi. Modi's family belonged to the  Modh - Ghanchi - Teli  (oil-presser) community, which is categorized as the  Other Backward Class  by the Indian government. Modi had only infrequently spoken of his family background during his 13 years as chief minister of Gujarat. In the run up to the 2014 national elections, he began to regularly draw attention to his low-ranking social origins and to having to work as a child in his father's tea shop on the  Vadnagar railway station  platform, a description that the evidence of neighbors does not entirely corroborate. Modi completed his  higher secondary education  in Vadnagar in 1967, where teachers described him as an average student and a keen gifted debater...