AHMEDABAD: You may never have heard about brothers of Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Yes, Modi has brothers - three of them. Narendra is 57 or 58, depending on which personal record of his one is referring to.
He is the second, just after Soma (68), who retired as an officer in the health department a couple of years before Modi first became chief minister in 2001. He now runs an old-age home in Ahmedabad.
The third one is Prahlad (55) who runs a fair price shop in Ahmedabad and is seen as a leader of fair price shop owners as he frequently takes up their problems with the government. Just a year ago, he had led an agitation against the government over bad quality of goods supplied by the government and also pilferage along the way.
Prahlad is the only other 'leader' in this pack. After Prahlad, comes the youngest of Modi Bros, Pankaj (50), who works as a clerk in the information department headquarters in Gandhinagar. It is surprising that most people did not even know he was the brother of such an important politician till the elder one became CM.
Mother Heeraba (95) stays with Soma in Someshwar tenement in Ranip and has lost her hearing. The story goes that at the swearing-in ceremony of Modi as CM, she was standing alone in a corner watching her son on the stage when someone identified her as the CM's mother and offered her a seat.
Like the mother, none of the brothers like to talk about Narendra. The other three brothers are close and regularly visit each other's place, but they are at a distance from brother No 2.
The house in Someshwar is also the chief minister's residential address in official records. He has not been here for many years. (courtesy Times Of India)
Source: 1 Nepal
Source: 1 Nepal
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