Thursday, April 10, 2014

Modi's marriage was a 'social formality': brother

Modi's marriage was a 'social formality': brother

Seeking to contain a controversy over Narendra Modi's marital status, his elder
brother Somabhai today said that the BJP prime ministerial
candidate's marriage should be seen as a "social formality"
which happened nearly 50 years ago.
     Modi acknowledged his marriage to Jashodaben for the
first time in his affidavit filed along with his nomination
papers in Vadodara Lok Sabha constituency yesterday which has
invited derisive remarks from the Congress.  In the state
assembly polls, he had left blank the column about spouse.
     In a statement sent to the media by the BJP, Somabhai
said, "Our parents had not studied much and we were a poor
family. To them Narendra was like any other child. In such
context our parents conducted his marriage in a tender age
with Jashodaben, but it turned out to be just a social
formality for the sake of it."
    "Modi, after leaving the house has not kept any contact
with the family," Somabhai said, adding, "Service to the
nation was his only religion.  So he left home and this
material world.  His marriage was just a formality as he left
the house soon after his marriage.
    "Even Jashodaben has been living at her father's home
and spending her life working in the education sector,"
Somabhai said.
    "The incident (Modi's marriage) which had occurred  45-50
years ago is to be seen in the background of a poor and
traditionally orthodox family," he said. 

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