Modi 100th Birthday

Gandhinagar, June 18: Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated his mother’s 100th birthday on Saturday as he met her in Gandhinagar.

PM Modi, who is on a one-day visit to Gujarat, reached his mother’s residence in Gandhinagar to greet her on her 100th birthday.

PM Modi touched his mother’s feet and sought blessings from her on her 100th birthday. Moments after meeting his mother on her birthday, PM Modi left her residence.

PM Narendra Modi is likely to visit the Pavagadh temple and later address a rally in Vadodara. Hiraba lives with the prime minister’s younger brother Pankaj Modi at Raysan village on the outskirts of Gandhinagar. PM Modi’s mother Hiraba was born on June 18, 1923, Pankaj Modi had said earlier.

Modi 100th Birthday

Religious programmes will be organised in Vadnagar, Modi’s hometown, for the long life and health of his mother, her family said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi family has also planned a ‘bhandaro’ (community meal) at the Jagannath temple in Ahmedabad on that day.


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Hatkeshwar Mahadev Temple in Vadnagar has organised various religious programmes for the long life and health of the prime minister’s mother.

Earlier, Hitesh Makwana, mayor of the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation (GMC), had announced that it has decided to name a road in Raysan village `Pujya Hiraba Marg’ so that “the next generation takes inspiration from her life. But on Thursday, the BJP-ruled civic body GMC issued a statement saying the naming has been put off. The road can not be named at present as the GMC has not yet formulated a policy about the naming of city roads,” it said.

“This proposal now stands postponed and will be considered in the future when a policy is formulated,” the statement said.