Prime Minister Narendra Modi is celebrating his 66th birthday today. He began his birthday, as he does every year, with a visit to his mother Heeraben Modi in Gandhinagar to seek her blessings.

With a packed schedule ahead in Gujarat today, the Prime Minister had reached his mother's home by 7.15 am and spent about half an hour there.


Heeraben Modi, 97, offered the PM a special sweet she had made for him and they chatted for a while before the PM touched her feet and left. He later tweeted pictures of the meeting and said - "A mother's love and blessings are the elixir of life."

He also visited the Raj Bhawan or Governor's Palace, where he met the state's new Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and several other BJP leaders. He then flew to Dahod in central Gujarat where he inaugurated an irrigation scheme and addressed a rally of tribals.

The PM will also visit Navsari in Surat where he will distribute disability aid kits to over 1000 beneficiaries to set a Guinness Book of World Records.

This is PM Modi's third visit in a month to his home state Gujarat, where elections will be held next year. On a visit last month, the Prime Minster had at a public rally said he had not returned home as much as he should've after taking office as Prime Minister, and promised to better that record.

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BY M.DIVYA SRI