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E-auction of over 1,200 items gifted to PM Modi goes live

insidetrack IndiaSeptember 17, 2022

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An online auction of over 1,200 items, including a model statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and sporting memorabilia of Commonwealth Games medalls, gifted to Prime Miner Narendra Modi, has gone live. The auction began on Saturday morning, coinciding with Modi’s birthday.
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“The time has arrived! It’s 10AM and the #PMMementosAuction2022 is now open & live! Head to pmmementos.gov.in to reger & participate in the auction in which exclusive gifts received Hon’ble Prime Miner Sh @NarendraModi have been led”, Union Culture Miner G Kishan Reddy tweeted.
The auction of mementos went live on PM Modi’s birthday. (Express photo Praveen Khanna)
At a press conference here on Friday, Reddy had said a statue of Lord Ganesha, a trident, models of the upcoming Shri Ram Mandir at Ayodhya and the Kashi-Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi will also be part of the e-auction of gifts and mementoes given to PM Modi, proceeds of which will go the Namami Gange Mission.

The black model statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was gifted to Modi in April sculptor Arun Yogiraj. Yogiraj and his team, sculpted the monolithic 28-ft statue of Netaji, made of telephone black granite stone, recently unveiled the Prime Miner at India Gate. Twenty-five new sporting memorabilia gifted to the Prime Miner various sportspersons are part of the auction, a senior official of the Culture Minry said on Friday. The auction will conclude on October 2. Some of the gifts are on display at the National Gallery of Modern Art.
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