I am very happy: Prime Minister’s nonagenarian mother says after exchanging notes herself

Gandhinagar: The Nonagenarian mother of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Hiraba, who herself went to a bank here to exchange old Rs 500 notes today said that she was very happy about the step of invalidation of higher denomination notes taken by her son to curb the menace of black money.

Hiraba, who lives here with her another son Pankaj Modi-an officer in the information department of Gujarat government, told newsmen after collecting exchanged notes from the local branch of Oriental Bank of Commerce that she was very happy. .

‘Manne Bahu Aanand Thay Chhe (I am very happy),’ she told newsmen in her brief reply on being asked about the step taken by her son and her coming to the bank to collect the exchanged notes herself.

Earlier, she came to the bank situated in Raisan here with her family members and completed the formality of filling up the request slip.

She handed over five Rs 500 notes (total Rs 4500/-) to the bank in lieu of which she was given one Rs 2000 note, five Rs 100 notes and two bundles of Rs 10.

A bank employee said that he was highly impressed to see that the mother of the Prime Minister herself came to the bank like a commoner. There was no pomp and show about it. She approached the bank counter like any other senior citizen.

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