gujarat cm is an obc he travelled in cars and when the bjp first came to power in ahmedabad municipal corporation he moved into a room on the first floor of the mayors bungalow at law garden rss ideologue she takes the cm for her husband even if she has never met him after the marriage apart from what is required to maintain highlevel security there are no trappings of power at his official residence bungalow he thought himself to be a misfit in politics it is said modi spends hours on grooming sessions in october 2001 at the first swearingin ceremony of modi as chief minister she stood alone in a corner watching her son on the stage even old rss hands say modi is a loner during the emergency he roamed the length and breadth of gujarat on a motorcycle with the rss prant pracharak keshavrao deshmukh visiting families of rss workers who were detained under the dreaded misawhen modi came into the bjp as the states organization secretary he was seen as a highflying pracharak used to the good things in life due to his regular tussles with them modi often got shuttled during his tenure as a pracharak from 1974 to 1988 however modi has shown a propensity for reinventing himself to suit the occasion both plays were high on the patriotic quotient sociologist tridip suhrud says that celibacy is seen as the highest form of manhood the third prahlad 55 runs a fair price shop in the state capital he developed a fixed way of looking at issues and people but it is wellknown that a teacher named jashodhaben in a banaskantha school is modis child bride it is ironical that the teenager left politics within three months of joining the jan sangh the flood of congratulatory messages in cyber space shows he is undoubtedly gujarats global man of the moment his theatrical skills are coming good in his political career he says only three staffers a cook and two peons are posted there pankaj 50 is the youngest of the modi brothers at the vadnagar railway station in the early 1960s he used to help his father damodardas run a teastall he is seen as a leader of fair price shop owners frequently taking up their problems with the government only a handful of people are welcome to his residence but understanding modi the politician isnt easy he now manages an oldage home in ahmedabad among the first things he surfs the net for news a year ago he led an agitation over bad quality goods supplied by the state and pilferage the story goes that as a preteen he used to swim with friends in the sharmistha lake which was infested with crocodiles most people did not know that he was the brother of an important politician till modi became cmthe brothers grew up in vadnagar a small town about 100 km north of ahmedabad in mehsana district hariyali was set