Sachin Tendulkar’s t-shirt, 1300 more gifts of Modi exhibited for auction(photos)
January 29, 2012
Ahmedabad, 29 January, 2012
As many as 1393 gifts presented to Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi at various public functions were exhibited at Ahmedabad’s Ravishankar Rawal art gallery between 27-29 January. A list of gifts that were exhibited for auction includes 208 objects of gold and silver, 377 memento, 225 photo frames and paintings, 154 turbans, 328 shawl etc. Sachin Tendulkar’s t-shirt was also part of the exhibition. Visitors were given a form, in which he/she had to write a code number of particular piece, its base value, its bid value(as per your wish), your name, address, phone number and signature(DeshGujarat visited and filled forms for two things, a traditional dress of Tarnetar fair and Shri Somnath’s 3-d photo frame. It was told that whether your bid was highest or not would be notified on phone call on Monday).
Photo with Kalam while visiting a laboratory
Dholka office where Narendra Modi worked in early years of political career
Thsi gift was presented to Modi by an African nation’s Vice President
Ahmedabad based Rizwan Kadri presented this painting of Ravishankar Rawal to Modi.
This is how forms were filled up for bid to purchase any of the gifts
This Dhaal was given to Modi by Amreli BJP
Sun temple of Modhera looks wonderful in this carved wall piece
This chariot was gifted to Modi by Gujarati people of Gondia
And look at Gadaas
A miniature of Ahmedabad’s Patang hotel, highly decorated
An art piece
Swords, just too many … It seems people like to gift swords to Modi the most
Tadpu is south Gujarat’s tribal music instrument, who will buy it? It was defective
Ploughs, too many. Farmers love to gift ‘hal’ to Modi
This small bamboo house is temple of tribal Pandori mata of Narmada district
A boat, gifted to Modi by party’s fishermen cell leader
Assamese hates
Patan Patola piece of handkerchief. It’s base price was Rs 7,000
Textile pieces, many traditional cloths, turbans, shawls and else
Tendulkar’s t shirt
A photo with Birla family, that too was for auction
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