When Modi, as a youngster, left the home, it caused pain to the family, but now the family was “happier than ever”, he said.
“We hope that going beyond the blood relations and following ‘the sanskars' of our elders, parents and family, he will make attempt to share people's pain and agony and serve them well,” he said, adding like he provided guidance and changed the fortunes of Gujarat, he will do the same for the country.
Pralhad, who heads association of fair-price and kerosene shop owners in Gujarat, had defended Narendra Modi when the controversy over his marital status erupted.
Modi left his family to become an RSS pracharak in his youth and has not maintained close ties with the family since then.
