Jashodaben Modi

Jashodaben Narendrabhai Modi (née Chimanlal Modi; born 1952) is a retired Indian school teacher. She is the estranged wife of Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India.

"I like to read about him (Modi) ... I know he will become PM", 2014
Jashodaben, interviewed by the The Indian Express, "I like to read about him (Modi) ... I know he will become PM" (1 February 2014).


 * We married when I was 17 [...] I had quit studies once I went to his place and remember him saying he wanted me to pursue my education. He would mostly talk to me about completing my education. Initially he took interest in talking to me and even in the affairs of the kitchen.


 * We have never been in touch and we parted on good terms as there were never any fights between us. I will not make up things that are not true. In three years, we may have been together for all of three months. There has been no communication from his end to this day.


 * I have never gone to meet him and we have never been in touch. I don’t think he will ever call me. In whatever I say, I do not want it to harm him. I just wish that he progresses in whatever he does. I know he will become PM one day!


 * He told me once that "I will be travelling across the country and will go as and where I please; what will you do following me?" When I came to Vadnagar to live with his family, he told me "why did you come to your in-laws' house when you are still so young, you must instead focus on pursuing your studies". The decision to leave was my own and there was never any conflict between us. He never spoke to me about the RSS or about his political leanings. When he told me he would be moving around the country as he wished, I told him I would like to join him. However, on many occasions when I went to my in-laws' place, he would not be present and he stopped coming there. He used to spend a lot of time in RSS shakhas. So I too stopped going there after a point and I went back to my father’s house.


 * My in-laws treated me well, but would never speak about the marriage.