Abbas of Modi household now lives with son in Aus

A Muslim boy who became an integral part of the Modi household at Vadnagar in Gujarat's Mehsana district in the early seventies, finding familial love and forging a lifelong friendship as he pursued his studies there, finds mention in PM Narendra Modi's emotional blogpost commemorating his mother Heeraba entering her 100th year.

Ahmedabad: Abbas, who now lives in Australia with his son, completed his matriculation with excellent grades while staying in Modi's family home. He was in the same class as the PM's brother Pankaj Modi, and both got government jobs Pankaj in the information department and  Abbas in the civil supplies department together.

'Abbas stayed with us for few years, left post matriculation'