NEW DELHI – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s wife Jashodaben on Wednesdaymorning got injured in a car accident in Chittorgarh in Rajasthan.According to the reports, the incident took place on a highway nearChittorgarh, following which Jashodaben was rushed to a nearby hospital,Indian media has reported.
Reports said that one of her relatives, Vasantbhai Modi, suffered criticalinjuries in the accident and later succumbed to them.
Jashodaben was returning from a marriage in Baran district near Kota inRajasthan when she met with an accident.
Some media reports quoted police personnel as saying that Jashodaben, whowas travelling in a Toyota Innova SUV, did not suffer serious injuries inthe accident.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had reportedly acknowledged the Jashodaben ashis wife for the first time at the time of filing his nomination forVadodara seat in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
She has also been provided with SPG security cover, which is given to thePM and members of immediate family. Modi married her in 1968 when they wereteenagers.
She has retired as a school teacher and lives a quiet life with her twobrothers in Ishwarwada village in Mehsana district of north Gujarat.