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'''Jashodaben Narendra Modi''' ({{Nee|Jashodaben Chimanlal Modi}};<ref name="May 2015 object maiden name">{{cite web |url= http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/jashodaben-moves-state-info-panel-with-fresh-rti-2/ |title=Jashodaben moves State Information Commission with fresh RTI |author=Express News Service |work=[[The Indian Express]] |date=3 May 2015 |access-date=6 May 2015}}</ref><ref name="Desai May 2015">{{cite web |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/jashodaben-modi-rti-narendra-modi-gandhinagar-sandip-modi/1/433422.html |title=PM Modi's wife Jashodaben hopes to get 3rd time lucky with RTI |first=Darshan |last=Desai |work=[[India Today]] |date=3 May 2015 |access-date=8 May 2015}}</ref> born January{{citation needed|date=September 2020|reason=I have seen sources that say she was born in 1952, but not that say she was born in January. January seems probably correct, but is unsourced. If she was born in January, she would be one-and-a-half years younger than Narendra, as he was born in September 1950.}} 1952) is a retired Indian school teacher and [[Family estrangement|estranged]] wife of [[Narendra Modi]]. The couple was married in 1968, following a religious ceremony (''[[marriages in India|vivaha]]'') when she was about 17 (As per her interview to Indian Express on 1 February 2014) and Modi was 18.<ref name=NDTVprays/><ref name="Ajay 2014"/><ref name="Vinod 2012">{{cite web |url=http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/emperor-uncrowned |title=The Emperor Uncrowned |first=Vinod K |last=Jose |work=[[The Caravan]] |date=1 March 2012 |access-date=26 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140926225937/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/emperor-uncrowned |archive-date=26 September 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Her husband never fully accepted the marriage, and abandoned his parental house shortly after their marriage. In his later life, he did not acknowledge his marriage until he was legally required to do in 2014 during a campaign.<ref name="Abdi 2014"/> Retired from teaching, Jashodaben lives a simple life of prayer.<ref name="Gowen 2015"/>
'''Jashodaben Modi''' (''[[née]]'' '''Jashodaben Chimanlal Modi''';<ref name="May 2015 object maiden name">{{cite web |url= http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/jashodaben-moves-state-info-panel-with-fresh-rti-2/ |title=Jashodaben moves State Information Commission with fresh RTI |author=Express News Service |work=[[The Indian Express]] |date=3 May 2015 |access-date=6 May 2015}}</ref><ref name="Desai May 2015">{{cite web |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/jashodaben-modi-rti-narendra-modi-gandhinagar-sandip-modi/1/433422.html |title=PM Modi's wife Jashodaben hopes to get 3rd time lucky with RTI |first=Darshan |last=Desai |work=[[India Today]] |date=3 May 2015 |access-date=8 May 2015}}</ref> born 1952) is a retired Indian school teacher and [[Family estrangement|estranged]] wife of [[Narendra Modi]], the prime minister of India. The couple was married in 1968 when she was about 17 and Modi was 18.<ref name=NDTVprays/><ref name="Ajay 2014"/><ref name="Vinod 2012">{{cite web |url=http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/emperor-uncrowned |title=The Emperor Uncrowned |first=Vinod K |last=Jose |work=[[The Caravan]] |date=1 March 2012 |access-date=26 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140926225937/http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/emperor-uncrowned |archive-date=26 September 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> A short time into the marriage, her husband abandoned her.<ref name=fintimes/><ref name=gowens-wapo/> He did not acknowledge the marriage publicly until he was legally required to do so before the 2014 Indian general elections.<ref name=thetimes/><ref name=independent/><ref name="Abdi 2014"/> Having retired from teaching, Joshodaben leads a simple life of prayer.<ref name="Gowen 2015"/>


==Early life, marriage, and career==
==Early life, marriage, and career==
Jashodaben was born as Jashodaben Chimanlal Modi in 1952.<ref name="Ajay 2014">{{cite web |url= http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/i-like-to-read-about-him-modi-i-know-he-will-become-pm/ |title=I like to read about him (Modi)... I know he will become PM |first=Lakshmi |last=Ajay |work=[[The Indian Express]] |date=1 February 2014 |access-date=26 September 2014}}</ref> Her mother died when she was two years old.<ref name="Ajay 2014"/>
Jashodaben was born as Jashodaben Chimanlal Modi in 1952.<ref name="Ajay 2014">{{cite web |url= http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/i-like-to-read-about-him-modi-i-know-he-will-become-pm/ |title=I like to read about him (Modi)... I know he will become PM |first=Lakshmi |last=Ajay |work=[[The Indian Express]] |date=1 February 2014 |access-date=26 September 2014}}</ref> Her mother died when Modi was two years old.<ref name="Ajay 2014"/>


Narendra Modi and Jashodaben had an [[arranged marriage]] in the custom of the caste of [[Vadnagar]], starting with a family-arranged betrothal in their very early childhood. According to Narendra Modi's brother, the couple had underwent ''vivaaha'', the religious ceremony of [[marriages in India|marriage]] when Narendra Modi was 18 and Jashodaben was about 17.<ref name="Vinod 2012"/>
Narendra Modi and Jashodaben had an [[arranged marriage]] in the custom of the caste of [[Vadnagar]], starting with a family-arranged betrothal in their very early childhood. According to Narendra Modi's brother, the couple had underwent ''vivaaha'', the religious ceremony of [[marriages in India|marriage]] when Narendra Modi was 18 and Jashodaben was about 17.<ref name="Vinod 2012"/>


A marriage ceremony was held to begin their married life together when she was 17<ref name="Ajay 2014" /><ref name="Singh 2014" /><ref name="Taylor 2014" /><ref name="Deshpande 2009" /> and he was 18.<ref name="Gowen 2015"/>
A marriage ceremony was held to begin their married life together when she was 17<ref name="Ajay 2014" /><ref name="Singh 2014" /><ref name="Taylor 2014" /><ref name="Deshpande 2009" /> and he was 18.<ref name="Gowen 2015"/> Modi abandoned Jashodaben soon after the marriage.<ref name=fintimes>{{citation|last=Mallet|first=Victor|title=India elections: Family man? Not Modi|newspaper=Financial Times|location=London|date=April 10, 2014|url=https://www.ft.com/content/2d6b793c-3711-32dc-97f7-73a3d7666874|quote=<small>Indians, especially his political enemies, have always been fascinated by the mystery of Modi’s abandoned wife Jashodaben, now a retired school teacher in her early sixties. ... As the first of over 800m eligible voters went to the polls this week in the 2014 Indian general election, Modi admitted for the first time under oath that he was married to her – in his nomination form for the parliamentary seat of Vadodara in Gujarat. ...His opponents hope that this disclosure will dent his popularity among women who might empathize with Jashodaben, whom he never returned to after two weeks of their nuptials. The declaration is reported to have come after strict legal advice that he come clean on the marriage which, his family members say, was never consummated.</small>}}</ref><ref name=thetimes>{{citation|last=Pagnamenta|first=Robin|title=Narendra Modi, frontrunner for Indian PM, admits to 'secret' wife|work=The Times|location=London|date=April 10, 2014|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/narendra-modi-frontrunner-for-indian-pm-admits-to-secret-wife-85cr83lkzrh|quote=<small>Narendra Modi, expected to become India’s next prime minister, admitted for the first time today that he is married, but said that he has been estranged from his wife for more than 40 years — a revelation that brings the treatment of women to the forefront of the nation’s election campaign. ... The leader of the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has always shunned questions about his private life, but was forced to make the declaration in an election affidavit filed in his home state of Gujarat. The 63-year-old chief minister of the state named his wife as 'Jashodaben' on a form about his marital status. In previous filings he has always left the column blank, although critics have long claimed that he had an arranged marriage when he was 17, to a woman he quickly deserted.</small>}}</ref><ref name=independent>{{citation|last=Buncombe|first=Andrew|title=The secret wife of Narendra Modi - and what she tells us about the man who might become India's next PM|publisher=Independent|location=London|date=April 14, 2014|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/secret-wife-narendra-modi-and-what-she-tells-us-about-man-who-might-become-india-s-next-pm-9254883.html|quote=<small> The woman to whom he was wed, Jashoda Chiman Modi, even gave an interview to a local newspaper in which she said although Mr Modi had effectively abandoned her, she considered herself his wife. Yet Mr Modi, who seldom takes any questions from the media, let alone ones about his private life, had always refused to comment on the matter. When he successfully contested four successive elections to become chief minister of Gujarat, he had always left blank the column on documents that asked about his marital status. On Wednesday, when Mr Modi filed nomination papers for the seat of Vadodara, one of two constituencies he is contesting, he entered the name Jashoda in the column that asked about his family. He was unable to provide her address.</small>}}</ref><ref name=gowens-wapo>{{citation|last=Gowens|first=Annie|title=Abandoned as a child bride, wife of Narendra Modi hopes he calls|work=Washington Post|location=Washington, DC|date=January 25, 2015|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/abandoned-as-a-child-bride-indias-first-lady-still-hopes-her-husband-will-call/2015/01/25/3509dac5-5ac1-49e3-8b44-7d92e027c9ec_story.html|quote=<small>Modi, 64, kept his teenage marriage a secret for decades during his political ascent and only last year admitted that his wife exists. The wife, Jashodaben Chimanlal Modi, is a retired teacher who lives in a small town in Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Although she had not heard from her husband in years, she says she still hopes to join him one day in the capital as his spouse. ... Narendra Modi, the son of a man who sold tea in a railway station, comes from a lower caste called Ghanchi. He and his wife were promised to each other as young adolescents in keeping with the traditions of their community. They were then married in a small ceremony when she was 17 and he was 18. ... Narendra Modi left shortly thereafter to wander in the Himalayas with little more than a change of clothing in his rucksack, ... Modi never returned to his wife but never divorced her, even as he became the high-profile chief minister of Gujarat and, last year, India’s premier. He never publicly spoke of his wife, and journalists who sniffed around on the topic as Modi’s fame grew were privately discouraged from doing so.</small>}}</ref>


Modi left his family at age 19 to wander in the Himalayas. After about two years of being out of contact with all who knew him, Modi returned to Vadnagar and contacted his family. He had made plans to go to [[Ahmedabad]] to work at his uncle's [[Cafeteria|canteen]]. At his mother's insistence, Jashodaben came to the family household to maintain their marriage, but her husband objected to the arrangement, insisting on continuing his life on his own terms and encouraging her to continue in her studies.<ref name="Ajay 2014"/><ref name="Vinod 2012"/><ref name="Deshpande 2009"/>
After about two years of being out of contact with all who knew him, Modi returned to Vadnagar and contacted his family. He had made plans to go to [[Ahmedabad]] to work at his uncle's [[Cafeteria|canteen]]. At his mother's insistence, Jashodaben came to the family household to maintain their marriage, but her husband objected to the arrangement, insisting on continuing his life on his own terms and encouraging her to continue in her studies.<ref name="Ajay 2014"/><ref name="Vinod 2012"/><ref name="Deshpande 2009"/>


{{quote|He told me once that "I will be travelling across the country and will go as and where I please; what will you do following me?" When I came to Vadnagar to live with his family, he told me "why did you come to your in-laws' house when you are still so young, you must instead focus on pursuing your studies". The decision to leave was my own and there was never any conflict between us. He never spoke to me about the RSS or about his political leanings. When he told me he would be moving around the country as he wished, I told him I would like to join him. However, on many occasions when I went to my in-laws' place, he would not be present and he stopped coming there. He used to spend a lot of time in RSS shakhas. So I too stopped going there after a point and I went back to my father's house.|Jashodaben in 2014<ref name="Ajay 2014"/>}}
{{blockquote|He told me once that "I will be travelling across the country and will go as and where I please; what will you do following me?" When I came to Vadnagar to live with his family, he told me "why did you come to your in-laws' house when you are still so young, you must instead focus on pursuing your studies". The decision to leave was my own and there was never any conflict between us. He never spoke to me about the RSS or about his political leanings. When he told me he would be moving around the country as he wished, I told him I would like to join him. However, on many occasions when I went to my in-laws' place, he would not be present and he stopped coming there. He used to spend a lot of time in RSS shakhas. So I too stopped going there after a point and I went back to my father's house.|Jashodaben in 2014<ref name="Ajay 2014"/>}}


Jashodaben said that she spent a total of about three months with her husband during a three-year period before their final separation.<ref name="Ajay 2014"/>
Jashodaben said that she spent a total of about three months with her husband during a three-year period before their final separation.<ref name="Ajay 2014"/>
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In the [[2014 Indian general election]], Modi contested the [[Vadodara]] seat in the [[Lok Sabha]], the [[lower house]] of the [[Parliament of India]].<ref name="Taylor 2014">{{cite news |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/04/10/why-did-narendra-modi-keep-his-wife-secret-for-almost-50-years/ |title=Why did Narendra Modi keep his wife secret for almost 50 years? |first=Adam |last=Taylor |work=[[The Washington Post]] |date=10 April 2014 |publisher=[[Graham Holdings|WPC]] |location=[[Washington, D.C.]] |issn=0190-8286 |access-date=12 June 2020}}</ref> Under the [[Representation of the People Act, 1951|Representation of the People Act]] and following recent rulings stating that a complete response was mandatory, Modi was required to declare any previous marriage.<ref name="Singh 2014">{{cite news |url=https://www.indiatvnews.com/politics/national/jashodaben-narendra-modi-wife-facts-prime-minister-india-latest-18423.html |title=10 facts to know about Jashodaben, wife of Prime Minister Narendra Modi |first=Raj |last=Singh |date=25 November 2014 |access-date=2020-09-22 |work=[[India TV]]}}</ref> Following legal advice to "come clean" about the issue, for the first time in public and media, Modi acknowledged that he had a wife.<ref name="Taylor 2014"/>
In the [[2014 Indian general election]], Modi contested the [[Vadodara]] seat in the [[Lok Sabha]], the [[lower house]] of the [[Parliament of India]].<ref name="Taylor 2014">{{cite news |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/04/10/why-did-narendra-modi-keep-his-wife-secret-for-almost-50-years/ |title=Why did Narendra Modi keep his wife secret for almost 50 years? |first=Adam |last=Taylor |work=[[The Washington Post]] |date=10 April 2014 |publisher=[[Graham Holdings|WPC]] |location=[[Washington, D.C.]] |issn=0190-8286 |access-date=12 June 2020}}</ref> Under the [[Representation of the People Act, 1951|Representation of the People Act]] and following recent rulings stating that a complete response was mandatory, Modi was required to declare any previous marriage.<ref name="Singh 2014">{{cite news |url=https://www.indiatvnews.com/politics/national/jashodaben-narendra-modi-wife-facts-prime-minister-india-latest-18423.html |title=10 facts to know about Jashodaben, wife of Prime Minister Narendra Modi |first=Raj |last=Singh |date=25 November 2014 |access-date=2020-09-22 |work=[[India TV]]}}</ref> Following legal advice to "come clean" about the issue, for the first time in public and media, Modi acknowledged that he had a wife.<ref name="Taylor 2014"/>


Sombhai Modi, Narendra Modi's brother, issued a statement saying that the [[arranged marriage]] had been forced on Modi by his family.<ref name="Mahurkar 2014">{{cite web |url= http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/narendra-modi-marriage-jashodaben/1/354912.html |title=Revealed: Why Narendra Modi walked out of his marriage with Jashodaben |first=Uday |last=Mahurkar |work=[[India Today]] |date=10 April 2014 |access-date=26 September 2014}}</ref> He said that the marriage was never consummated, and that Modi left it soon after it was solemnized,thus confirming that the marriage actually never took place.<ref name="Mahurkar 2014"/> His brother further said that Modi had been inspired by the teachings of [[Swami Vivekananda]] to later for society.<ref name="Mahurkar 2014"/>
Sombhai Modi, Narendra Modi's brother, issued a statement saying that the [[arranged marriage]] had been forced on Modi by his family.<ref name="Mahurkar 2014">{{cite web |url= http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/narendra-modi-marriage-jashodaben/1/354912.html |title=Revealed: Why Narendra Modi walked out of his marriage with Jashodaben |first=Uday |last=Mahurkar |work=[[India Today]] |date=10 April 2014 |access-date=26 September 2014}}</ref> He said that the marriage was never consummated, and that Modi left it soon after it was solemnized, thus confirming that the marriage actually never took place.<ref name="Mahurkar 2014"/> His brother further said that Modi had been inspired by the teachings of [[Swami Vivekananda]] to later for society.<ref name="Mahurkar 2014"/>


Before Modi officially acknowledged his marriage, a group of activists and security professionals visited Jashodaben at her home.<ref name="Oza April 2014"/> They offered to escort her on the [[Char Dham]] pilgrimage, which was a trip which she had long wanted to take.<ref name="Oza April 2014"/> During the trip, they took her to the [[ashram]] of [[Ramdev|Swami Ramdev]] in [[Rishikesh]], [[Uttarakhand]].<ref name="Oza April 2014"/> Journalists sought Jashodaben for comment at the news of the marriage, but her family told them that she would return home soon.<ref name="Oza April 2014"/>
Before Modi officially acknowledged his marriage, a group of activists and security professionals visited Jashodaben at her home.<ref name="Oza April 2014"/> They offered to escort her on the [[Char Dham]] pilgrimage, which was a trip which she had long wanted to take.<ref name="Oza April 2014"/> During the trip, they took her to the [[ashram]] of [[Ramdev|Swami Ramdev]] in [[Rishikesh]], [[Uttarakhand]].<ref name="Oza April 2014"/> Journalists sought Jashodaben for comment at the news of the marriage, but her family told them that she would return home soon.<ref name="Oza April 2014"/>


To contest the election, Modi's political opponents criticised his evasions of facts about his marriage on official documents. Nishant Varma, a citizen of [[Ahmedabad]], sought criminal charges against Modi for having failed to acknowledge his legal wife and forge previous election documents as against prescribed rules of the Representation of the People Act. The case is subjected to revision in the [[Supreme Court of India]]. The lower court refused to pronounce Modi guilty of criminal offense under this Act.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Modis-defective-affidavit-issue-reaches-high-court/articleshow/44828755.cms |title=Modi's defective affidavit issue reaches high court |work=[[The Times of India]] |first=Saeed |last=Khan |date=15 October 2014 |access-date=7 November 2014}}</ref>
To contest the election, Modi's political opponents criticised his evasions of facts about his marriage on official documents. Nishant Varma, a citizen of [[Ahmedabad]], sought criminal charges against Modi for having failed to acknowledge his legal wife and forge previous election documents as against prescribed rules of the Representation of the People Act. The case is subjected to revision in the [[Supreme Court of India]]. The lower court pronounced Modi as not guilty of any criminal offense under this Act.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Modis-defective-affidavit-issue-reaches-high-court/articleshow/44828755.cms |title=Modi's defective affidavit issue reaches high court |work=[[The Times of India]] |first=Saeed |last=Khan |date=15 October 2014 |access-date=7 November 2014}}</ref>


In summer 2014, [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] party politician [[Ajay Rai]] filed a lawsuit to be heard by the [[Allahabad High Court]] complaining, among other things, that Modi did not give the [[permanent account number]] of Jashodaben.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-10-31/news/55631299_1_prime-minister-narendra-modi-jashodaben-six-weeks |title=Allahabad HC gives 6 weeks' time to PM Narendra Modi to file statement on election petition |author=<!--No byline--> |work=[[The Times of India]] |date=31 October 2014 |access-date=7 November 2014}}</ref>
In summer 2014, [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] party politician [[Ajay Rai]] filed a lawsuit to be heard by the [[Allahabad High Court]] complaining, among other things, that Modi did not give the [[permanent account number]] of Jashodaben.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-10-31/news/55631299_1_prime-minister-narendra-modi-jashodaben-six-weeks |title=Allahabad HC gives 6 weeks' time to PM Narendra Modi to file statement on election petition |author=<!--No byline--> |work=[[The Times of India]] |date=31 October 2014 |access-date=7 November 2014}}</ref>
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In December 2014, a writer for Pakistani news agency [[Dawn News]] said that not many newspapers have had the courage to report the troubles which Jashodaben has experienced.<ref name="Dawn December 2014">{{cite web |url= http://www.dawn.com/news/1153889/new-year-resolve-for-jashodaben |title=New Year resolve for Jashodaben |first=Jawed |last=Naqvi |work=[[Dawn News]] |date=30 December 2014 |access-date=12 May 2015}}</ref>
In December 2014, a writer for Pakistani news agency [[Dawn News]] said that not many newspapers have had the courage to report the troubles which Jashodaben has experienced.<ref name="Dawn December 2014">{{cite web |url= http://www.dawn.com/news/1153889/new-year-resolve-for-jashodaben |title=New Year resolve for Jashodaben |first=Jawed |last=Naqvi |work=[[Dawn News]] |date=30 December 2014 |access-date=12 May 2015}}</ref>


In February 2015, Jashodaben hosted some Christian missionaries who invited her to join their mission to help many destitute and helpless Hindus by teaching [[Bhagavad Gita|Gita]] and [[Ramayana]] to them.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.amarujala.com/feature/samachar/national/s-peter-paul-meet-with-jasodaben-hindi-news-rk/?page=0 |title=किसने कहा, 'जशोदाबेन की प्रार्थनाओं से पीएम बने मोदी'|author=<!--No byline--> |work=[[Amar Ujala]] |date=6 February 2015 |access-date=23 April 2015}}{{Failed verification|date=January 2017}}</ref> In June 2015, Jashodaben was scheduled to speak at a conference on politics organized by supporters of Modi.<ref name="Rawat 2015">{{cite web |url= http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150612/jsp/nation/story_25267.jsp |title=She who BJP can't stomach |first=Basant |last=Rawat |work=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]] |date=12 June 2015|access-date=17 June 2015 }}{{dead link|date=September 2020}}</ref> Event organizers reported that the conference was shut down on the second day of the week-long program on the direction of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] leader [[Amit Shah]] and others.<ref name="Rawat 2015"/> No reason was given for cancelling the conference, but people in attendance claimed Jashodaben's presence as the cause.<ref name="Rawat 2015"/>
In February 2015, Jashodaben hosted some Christian missionaries who invited her to join their mission to help many destitute and helpless Hindus by teaching [[Bhagavad Gita|Gita]] and [[Ramayana]] to them.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.amarujala.com/feature/samachar/national/s-peter-paul-meet-with-jasodaben-hindi-news-rk/?page=0 |title=किसने कहा, 'जशोदाबेन की प्रार्थनाओं से पीएम बने मोदी'|author=<!--No byline--> |work=[[Amar Ujala]] |date=6 February 2015 |access-date=23 April 2015}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=January 2017}} In June 2015, Jashodaben was scheduled to speak at a conference on politics organized by supporters of Modi.<ref name="Rawat 2015">{{cite web |url= http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150612/jsp/nation/story_25267.jsp |title=She who BJP can't stomach |first=Basant |last=Rawat |work=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]] |date=12 June 2015|access-date=17 June 2015 }}{{dead link|date=September 2020}}</ref> Event organizers reported that the conference was shut down on the second day of the week-long program on the direction of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] leader [[Amit Shah]] and others.<ref name="Rawat 2015"/> No reason was given for cancelling the conference, but people in attendance claimed Jashodaben's presence as the cause.<ref name="Rawat 2015"/>


In November 2015, Jashodaben applied for a passport in order to visit relatives and friends overseas. As she was unable to produce a marriage certificate or a joint affidavit from her husband, the application was rejected by the regional passport office as "incomplete". Her brother Ashok stated that a legal option was being considered.<ref name=NoPassport>{{cite news|title=No passport for PM's spouse, as she has no marriage certificate|date=7 November 2015|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/no-passport-for-narendra-modis-wife-as-she-has-no-marriage-certificate/article7855384.ece|website=[[The Hindu]]|first=Mahesh |last=Langa}}</ref>
In November 2015, Jashodaben applied for a passport in order to visit relatives and friends overseas. As she was unable to produce a marriage certificate or a joint affidavit from her husband, the application was rejected by the regional passport office as "incomplete". Her brother Ashok stated that a legal option was being considered.<ref name=NoPassport>{{cite news|title=No passport for PM's spouse, as she has no marriage certificate|date=7 November 2015|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/no-passport-for-narendra-modis-wife-as-she-has-no-marriage-certificate/article7855384.ece|website=[[The Hindu]]|first=Mahesh |last=Langa}}</ref>
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