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Modi: Traced and publicly felicitated all his childhood teachers as Gujarat CM

Narendra Modi · People with The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi x Nikhil Kamath | Episode 6 | By WTF · Nikhil Kamath · Jan 10, 2025 · at 13:20

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks with Nikhil Kamath about his early upbringing and reaching out to honor his former teachers after assuming public office as Chief Minister of Gujarat.

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“سکول کے دوستوں کو بلاؤں بلایا دوسری میری اچھا تھی جو شاید ہندوستان کے لوگوں کے لئے عجیب ہوگا میرے من کرتا تھا کہ میں میرے سبھی تیچرز کو سارو جیرکل سے سمبان کروں گا تو مجھے بچپن سے جنہوں نے پڑھایا ہے اور سکولی سکھا تک جو بھی میرے تیچر رہے میں نے سب کو ڈھونڈا اور سی ایم بننے کے بعد ان کا بہت بڑا ساروز جنگ سممان کیا میں نے اور ہمارے گورنر صاحب تھے شرما جی بے بھی اس کارکم میں آئے اور گجرانت کے سبھی لبد پرتشترد لوگ اس کارکم میں تھے”

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The claim, plainly

After becoming Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi tracked down all his childhood and school teachers and organized a public felicitation event in Gujarat to honor them.

a quote alone can be ambiguous, so this restates it with the references and context of the conversation around it resolved. AI-written; the tape below the player is the source.

Assessment

Contemporary reporting and archival records confirm that Narendra Modi, while serving as Chief Minister of Gujarat, tracked down 28 of his former schoolteachers from Vadnagar and held a public felicitation ceremony in Ahmedabad on November 27, 2005, at the Gujarat Arts and Science College grounds. The event was attended by the then-Governor of Gujarat, Nawal Kishore Sharma, who joined Modi on stage to honor the teachers, fully corroborating all aspects of the claim.

Contemporary reporting by Jumana Shah for Daily News and Analysis (DNA) on November 27–28, 2005, documented the felicitation of 28 Vadnagar teachers by Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Governor Nawal Kishore Sharma at Gujarat College ground in Ahmedabad.
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay's 2013 biography 'Narendra Modi: The Man, The Times' recorded the November 2005 public event and teacher accounts of being tracked down and invited.
Press Information Bureau records from September 4, 2014, documented Modi's official remarks recalling the tracking down and felicitation of his childhood teachers during his tenure as Chief Minister.

Checked against

[1] scribd.com [2] wikipedia.org [3] indiatimes.com [4] scribd.com [5] hindustantimes.com

"Narendra Modi" felicitated his "school teachers" Gujarat Chief Minister "November 27, 2005" OR "27 November 2005" "Narendra Modi" "Kelve te Kelavani" OR "teachers" "Narendra Modi" "teachers" "Vadnagar" felicitation OR felicitated OR honoured OR honored "Nawal Kishore Sharma" OR "Naval Kishore Sharma" "Kelve te Kelavani" "Narendra Modi" "Naval Kishore Sharma" OR "Nawal Kishore Sharma"

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