Somabhai Modi is an Indian activist, former Inspector of Health Department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician. The 14th Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, is his younger brother.
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Wiki/Biography
Somabhai Damodardas Modi was born on Thursday, 19 November 1942 (age 80; as of 2022) in Vadnagar, Mehsana District, Bombay Presidency, British India (now in Gujarat, India). His zodiac sign is Scorpio.
family
parents and siblings
His father, Damodas Mulchand Modi, was a tea seller. He died in 1989. His mother, Heraben Modi, died on 30 December 2022.
Photo by Damodardas Mulchand Modi. Soma comes father
Heraben comes, Soma comes mother
He has four brothers and a sister. His brother Amrut Modi worked as a screw machine operator. His brother Narendra Modi is the 14th Prime Minister of India. His brother Prahlad Modi is a politician. His brother Pankaj Modi worked as a clerk in the Information Department of the Gujarat government. His sister’s name is Vasantiben Hasmukhlal Modi.
Soma Modi’s brother Amrut Modi
Narendra Modi’s photo
Prahlad Modi, brother of Soma Modi
Soma Modi’s brother Pankaj Modi
Vasantiben Hasmukhlal comes, Soma comes and
wife and children
His wife’s name is Chandrika. He has two sons who are engineers.
religion
Somabhai Modi follows Hinduism.
Caste
Somabhai Modi belongs to the Mod-Ganchi caste, which was declared an OBC in 1994.
Career
Municipal Corporation
As Soma was interested in his studies, he did not join his father in running the tea stall. After passing the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) examination, Soma joined the health department in 1960 and served in the AMC till his retirement in 2013 as an inspector.
politics
Somabhai Modi joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1994. Before any election, the party asked him to visit various constituencies in Gujarat to prepare and present a report on the problems faced by the people living there. However, Soma did not pursue a career in politics because he could not appeal to her. Although various BJP politicians repeatedly asked him to enter politics, he always denied it. In an interview, he said:
I have always had this clarity that I don’t want to get into politics. Mai swatantrata se kaam karate rakhana chahata hun”.
Social activism
Somabhai Modi established a trust called Sarvoday Seva Trust on 26 March 1999 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. He founded Visamo Vruddhashram, a nursing home, in memory of his father, Damodardas Mulchand Modi, on 29 January 2001. Under the aegis of Sarvoday Seva Trust, Soma established a physiotherapy center on 7 May 2006. He expanded his trust by establishing the clinic Suvid Dard Kendra. The clinic treats people suffering from severe back and neck pain. On February 16, 2021, Visamo Vruddhashram was renamed as Swargast Damordas Moolchand Modi Sewashram, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the nursing home. His mother, Heraben Modi, unveiled a bust of Damodarda Mulchand Modi. In an interview about this, Soma said,
It was a quiet and private function. My mother Hiraba opened the bust. We organized a small celebration in our nursing home with the members and some close people from our town.”
Damodarda’s bust of Mulchand Modi is at the inauguration of Soma and Herabeni
Facts/Trivia
- According to Somabhai Modi, when Narendra Modi told him that he wanted to become a politician, he was skeptical about his decision because of the instability that politics could create in Narendra’s life. Speaking about this, he said:
I was a little worried, of course. No one from our family was involved in politics. I was afraid that his life would be unstable.”
- Somabhai Modi once wrote a letter to Narendra Modi when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat. In his letter, he advised them to refrain from highlighting acquaintances during public meetings, as it was inappropriate. Soma wrote the letter when Narendra Modi inquired about the well-being of an old acquaintance who was among several other attendees at a public meeting. The letter read
I felt that he was not well. I wrote that emphasizing dating during such a public meeting was not ideal. You were sitting there as a judge. People can object to it, and they can also misinterpret your decision – it doesn’t matter that you might have made an unbiased decision. I wrote about a film I watched a long time ago, Sohrab Modi’s Nausherwan-e-Adil, in which Nausherwan punishes his son for a crime despite his wife crying.”
Soma Modi with younger brother Narendra Modi during an event
- Somabhai Modi passionately follows his passion for reading and likes the works of various authors like Kanhayalal Munshi, Ramanlal Desai, Panalal Patel and Munshi Premchand.
- Somabhai Modi is the Vice President of Global Indians for Bharat Vikas (GIBV).
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