New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is in a spot after declaring himself as a married man. His brother Somabhai Damodardas Modi has issued a clarification on his marriage saying Modi was married to Jashodaben over 45 years back when he was a minor and the family was poor and uneducated.
Somabhai has also added that Modi had 'given up family for the country's service'. He has appealed to voters to not judge Modi on the basis of his past.
Modi in an affidavit filed before the Election Commission showed himself as a married man revealing that his wife's name is Jashodaben.
In an affidavit submitted along with his nomination papers filed on Wednesday for Vadodara Lok Sabha seat, Modi for the first time stated that he is married.
So far, Modi used to leave the column of spouse which is to be filled in an affidavit as blank. He had kept the column as blank in 2012 Assembly elections as well. However, for the 2014 Lok Sabha election affidavit, in the column where he has to declare assets in the name of his wife, Modi has written that he has no information on it.
####Full text of the clarification issued by Damodardas Modi
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