Modi suit auction bid crosses Rs.2 crore

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, February 20, 2015:  On the last day of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s monogrammed suit, Mukesh Patel from Surat made a bid of Rs 2,00,92,000.

After Surat-based Mukesh Patel enhanced his bid to Rs 1.48 crore from Rs 1.39 crore he had offered previously on Thursday, it was the turn of Rajesh Jain, owner of an engineering firm in Haryana, to make a higher bid of Rs 1 crore 85 Lakh on Friday.

Earlier, Bhavnagar-based ship-breaker Komalkant Sharma had offered Rs 1.41 crore.

As the monogrammed bandhgala, which according to some reports is worth Rs 10 lakh, hogged all the limelight at the auction, initially there were few takers for the humble Cricket Australia T-shirt gifted to Modi by bowling great Brett Lee which attracted bids ranging between Rs 1500 and Rs 2000.

Towards the evening a BJP MLA from Surat and a city-based businessman made two separate bids of Rs1.11 lakh each for the football world cup jersey and cricket Australia T-shirt gifted to Modi.

Harsh Sanghvi, MLA from Surat’s Majura assembly seat, said he will donate the FIFA World Cup T-shirt to a team of blind sportspersons if he won the bid.

"I have made a bid of Rs 1,11,111 for the FIFA T-shirt that was gifted to Prime minister Modi during his visit to Brazil after football World Cup last year as I want to donate it some blind people’s team either of cricket or football," Sanghvi told PTI.

"I have preferred the sport T-shirt over other items as I am young and want to encourage the youth of my constituency who are pursuing a career in sports. This will surely encourage them," added Sanghvi.

Courtesy: Indiatoday