Friday, February 20, 2015

Narendra Modi's monogrammed suit raises nearly £450,000 at auction (Unbelievable)

Diamond magnate makes winning bid of 43 million rupees for Indian prime minister’s suit, with money going towards cleaning up Ganges river

The dark suit with unique monogram pinstripes worn by Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, has been auctioned off for nearly £450,000.
Diamond merchant Lalji Patel, who like Modi is from Gujarat state, made the winning bid of 43m rupees (£448,805).
Modi wore the suit with his monogram in dull gold pinstripes when he met the US president, Barack Obama, in India last month.
The suit was estimated to have cost more than 1m rupees, and opposition party lawmakers criticised the prime minister for his insensitivity in wearing such an expensive suit in a country where millions of people live in poverty.
Gujarat official Milind Toravane said the suit and other items being auctioned off were gifts received by Modi after he became prime minister in May 2014. The gifts include decorative pieces in silver and brass.
The money raised in the auction will be used to clean up the heavily polluted Ganges river.
During Modi’s 2001 – 2014 stint as chief minister of Gujarat, the gifts he received were regularly auctioned off and the money collected used to fund programmes for the education of girls in the state.



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