India PM Narendra Modi’s pinstriped suit goes under hammer to fetch Rs.4.31 crore

20 Feb,Surat

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s monogrammed suit was sold Friday for Rs. 4.31 crore after a three-day auction that ended in Surat.
Modi had used it during his meeting with US President Barack Obama last month.

There was a scramble to claim Modi’s pinstripe monogrammed suit with bids going higher on the third and final day after Laljibhai Patel made the final bid. Another bid of five crore rupees was rejected as the deadline for the auction ended.

The suit, that 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.