NOBODY KNOWS PM MODI , SAYS SMRITI IRANI

By Anshika Khera

Former Union Minister Smriti Irani , put a light on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal life . She said that he is close to nobody in his alleged inner circle. By saying this , she dispelled the myth regarding his close relationships. She noted that the people who actually do know him well are rarely in the limelight or featured by the media.

She appeared on Soha Ali Khan’s podcast and said as quoted, “ Let me break the biggest myth. There is nobody close to the Prime Minister. Anybody that you ever meet who says how great a close relationship they share with the Prime Minister either doesn’t know the Prime Minister or they are outright lying. He’s somebody who left his home for a larger purpose. He has never picked up people who then don’t become effective enough to serve that larger cause. For him, it’s very clear that I have one life, and I want to give back to my country. That’s it. He teaches you how to work on the details. You’d better know your job. He will remember what you said on that topic in 2007, and he would just look at you ‘Oh, I don’t think so.’ You don’t want to be in that space ever.”

She gave credits to the prime minister for nominating her to the Rajya Sabha, and acknowledged his role in providing her with the opportunity to serve in the upper house of Parliament. She said, “In my ten years of working with him as minister, if you look back at my two opportunities of serving in the Rajya Sabha, they were courtesy of him.”