As the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi is always under the public eye. His every move is scrutinized by everyone and also the media. But other members of the Modi family have kept their lives private and very little is known about them. He belongs to both the right-wing Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
PM Modi was born on 17 September, 1950 to Damodardas Mulchand Modi and Heeraben Modi. The couple had six children –Soma Modi, Pankaj Modi, Prahlad Modi, Vasantiben Hasmukhlal Modi, and Arvind Modi, among which Narendra Modi was the third eldest.
Let’s know more about them here:
Somabhai Modi is a retired health officer who now runs an old age home in the city of Ahmedabad. Another of his brothers Prahlad, an activist on behalf of fair-price shop owners, has his own fair-price shop in Ahmedabad. His third brother Pankaj is employed with the Information Department in Gandhinagar.
Sombhai Modi
Sombhai hasn’t met his younger brother in the past two-and-a-half years, since he took up the office of prime minister. The brothers have only spoken on the phone.
Pankajbhai Modi
Pankaj Modi is the youngest of the siblings, and works as an officer in the Gujarat information department. Due to the fact that their mother, Heeraben, stayed with him in Gandhinagar, he got to meet his brother twice in the state capital in the past six months, when the prime minister visited her.
Amrutbhai Modi
Amrutbhai is a retired man who worked as a fitter for a private company, drawing a salary of less than Rs 10,000 a month, as per India Today reports. He leads a quiet life in his Ahmedabad home with son Sanjay and his family.
Prahladbhai Modi
Prahladbhai Modi is fair price shop owner and president of the Gujarat State Fair Price Owner’s Association. Prahlad Modi, many-a-times, have protested against government policies which are established by his brother Narendra Modi. He is the vice president of the 2001-founded All India Fair Price Shop Dealer’s Federation.
