PM Narendra Modi suit fetches Rs.1.11 crore for Ganga Mission

The controversial pinstriped suit of Prime Minister Narender Modi which became the Achilles heel of the BJP in the February assembly polls in Delhi has been auctioned at a whopping Rs.1.11 crore

It attracted massive offers from businessmen at an auction in Surat, where items gifted to the Prime Minister have gone under the hammer to raise funds for the Clean Ganga Mission.A Gujrati NRI Viral Chowksi, paid Rs.1.11 Crore n Wednesday for the controversial pinstripe monogrammed bandh-gala suit which Prime Minister Narendra Modi wore during United States President Barack Obama’s visit to India last month.

But Political adversaries of the BJP and the Prime Minister has described the auction as a ' damage control' action and that the PMO and BJP want to get rid of an item that had brought them defame and also drubbing at the Delhi assembly poll- which was an unheard of happening for the party in the Assembly polls in national capital .

Another businessman Suresh Aggarwal made an offer of Rs. 1 crore for the suit. “I have offered Rs. 1 crore. This is work of charity and when the Prime Minister is doing for a great cause like the cleaning of the Ganga, I decided to go ahead and buy the suit,” he said..Another Raju Aggarwal offered Rs. 51 lakh for the suit, saying it was for a noble cause. The suit that created waves and kicked up a political storm was auctioned along with 455 items that Modi had received as gifts during his nearly nine-month long tenure to generate funds for the Prime Minister’s ambitious ‘Clean Ganga Mission’.

The gift items belonging to Prime Minister Modi is a national treasure and the money generated from the auction will be utilised for the ‘Clean Ganga Mission’,Surat Municipal Commissioner Milind Toravane who is spearheading the auctioning process says.The event was organised at SMC’s Science Convention Centre at city-lights road in Surat as the Prime Minister’s Office(PMO) had decided to hold the auction event in the city.Even during his chief ministerial tenure in Gujarat Modi had initiated a trend to auction the gifts that he received in a year and it was donated to Kanya Kelavani Yojna for girl child education .

The Prime Minister was photographed wearing the suit during his summit talks with Obama in Hyderabad House in Delhi on January 25 and at a joint media appearance that followed the meeting.On closer inspection, photographs of the suit showed that each stripe was actually comprised of tiny letters spelling out his name in full — Narendra Damodardas Modi — and embroidered on the fabric vertically down the stripe.

The suit had triggered a debate in social media while the Prime Minister was slammed by his political opponents for wearing an expensive suit. Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh called Modi a “megalomaniac“. Modi's suit had been a rage on social media and also became an display item during the election debate in the assemly polls.Tweets f.