Personal life

Personal life

Modi was born in a middle class family in Vadnagar in Mehsana district of what was then Bombay State, India. During the Indo-Pak war in the mid sixties, even as a young boy, he volunteered to serve the soldiers in transit at railway stations^{[citation needed]}. In 1967, he served the flood affected people of Gujarat. As a young man, he joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, a student organization and was involved in the anti-corruption Nav Nirmāṇ ("Reconstruction") Movement. After working as a full time organizer for the organization, he was later nominated as its representative in the Bharatiya Janata Party.^[13] He started with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),a socio-cultural organization with a focus on social and cultural development of India.

Modi completed his schooling in Vadnagar. He holds the distinction of being a well-educated politician, having earned a masters graduate degree in Political Science from Gujarat University. He is known for being a poet and has published few book of poetry. He claims to be a bachelor which would have made him the first and thus far, only, bachelor chief minister of Gujarat.

However in 2009, the Indian media tracked down his long forgotten wife Jashodaben Modi in a small village called Banaskantha in rural Gujarat. Narendra Modi was married to Jashodaben when she was just 18 years old. At the time, she had studied only upto Class VII which was said to be a factor in the strained relations with her husband. She was sent back to her parents home and she stayed there ever since. ^{[14] [15]}