On mom Heeraba’s one centesimal birthday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday penned an emotional put up, whereas mentioning that his mom taught him an essential lesson on how one can be smart and discovered, even after not receiving a proper schooling. PM Modi highlighted his mom’s important hand in instilling values of tolerance and cleanliness from an early age.
Taking to Twitter, PM Modi wrote, “Maa… this isn’t a mere word but it captures a range of emotions. Today, 18th June, is the day my Mother Heeraba enters her 100th year. On this special day, I have penned a few thoughts expressing joy and gratitude.”
Modi met his mom in Gujarat and took her blessings on her one centesimal birthday.
“My mother is as simple as she is extraordinary. Just like all mothers,” he wrote in a prolonged weblog put up devoted to his mom.
“Today, I feel extremely happy and fortunate to share that my mother Smt. Heeraba is entering her hundredth year. This is going to be her birth centenary year. If my father had been alive, he too would have celebrated his 100th birthday last week. 2022 is a special year as my mother’s centenary year is starting, and my father would have completed his,” he wrote.
“Earlier, there was no custom of celebrating birthdays in our family. However, children from the younger generations planted 100 trees to remember my father on his birthday,” the PM additional wrote.
PM Modi has been actively in politics for a number of a long time. However, he revealed that his mom was current solely on two events by his facet publicly — one, was in Ahmedabad on Modi’s return from Srinagar, and the final time was at his swearing-in ceremony when he turned the Chief Minister of Gujarat for the primary time, again in 2001.
“Since childhood, I have noted that Mother not only respects others’ choices but also refrains from imposing her preferences. In my own case especially, she respected my decisions, never created any hurdles, and encouraged me. Since childhood, she could feel that a different mindset grew inside me,” PM Modi wrote.
Stating that his mom was very strict when it got here to cleanliness, PM Modi wrote: “Mother was extremely particular that the bed should be clean and properly laid out. She would not tolerate even a speck of dust on the bed.”
“Her focus on cleanliness is evident even today. Whenever I go to Gandhinagar to visit her, she offers me sweets with her own hands. And just like a young child’s doting mother, she takes out a napkin and wipes my face once I finish eating. She always has a napkin or small towel tucked into her saree,” he added.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”