Gujarat: PM Modi surprises family as he reaches home to meet mother sans security

He spent about 15 minutes with Hira Ben who lives with Modi's younger brother Pankaj Modi in the village that falls between Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad.

File image of PM Modi and his mother Hiraben/ PTI image

Gujarat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was in Gujarat on Thursday for attending a meeting of Shree Somnath Trust at Raj Bhawan in Gandhinagar, later went to meet his mother Hira Ben in Raysan village near Gandhinagar. PM Modi stunned his family members on his surprise visit as he wasn’t accompanied by any security forces and came alone to spend some time with his nonagenarian mother. He spent about 15 minutes with Hira Ben who lives with Modi's younger brother Pankaj Modi in the village that falls between Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad. The PM then left for the Ahmedabad airport to fly back to Delhi, said neighbours of Pankaj Modi. Modi visits his mother every time he comes to Gandhinagar. Pime Minister’s meeting of the Shree Somnath Trust at the Raj Bhavan was also attended by BJP veteran L K Advani and party chief Amit Shah. Modi, Shah and Advani are among the seven trustees of the trust that manages affairs of the famous Somnath temple of Lord Shiva, situated in Gir-Somnath district of Gujarat. "The meeting lasted for about an hour wherein former Gujarat chief minister Keshubhai Patel was renominated as the chairman of the trust for the term of another year," said P K Laheri, one of the trustees.