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The draw of lots of 15,000 lucky winners, who used digital mode for payment, was conducted by paralympic Deepa Malik, cricketer Gautam Gambhir, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley by the click of a button.    The first lot of lottery of Modi government's twin schemes -- Lucky Grahak Yojana for consumers and Digi-Dhan Vyapar Yojana for merchants -- was launched on Sunday at the Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi. The draw of lots of 15,000 lucky winners, who used digital mode for payment, was conducted by paralympic Deepa Malik, cricketer Gautam Gambhir, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology  Ravi Shankar Prasad and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley by the click of a button. While Gambhir made a payment of Rs 13,258 to pay off his electricity bills in front of a packed audience, Deepa Malik said digitalisation was Santa Claus' gift to India. A secure an...

                                NAME Narendra Modi OCCUPATION Prime Minister ,  Politician BIRTH DATE September 17 ,  1950  (age 66) EDUCATION Gujarat University ,  Delhi University PLACE OF BIRTH Vadnagar ,  India FULL NAME Narendra Damodardas Modi ZODIAC SIGN Virgo Narendra Modi is best known for rising from humble beginnings to become prime minister of India. Synopsis Narendra Modi grew up in the town of Vadnagar in India, the son of a street merchant. He entered politics as a youth and quickly rose through the ranks of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist political party. Modi later joined the mainstream Bharatiya Janata Party in 1987, eventually becoming national secretary. In 2002, he was alleged to be responsible for the deaths of more than 1,000 Muslims during civil unrest but was later exonerated. In 2014 he was elected prime...