Modi meets mother, seeks blessings

Gandhinagar, May 16 (IANS) With Narendra Modi all set to become prime minister, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate Friday went to meet his mother to seek her blessings.

Modi, wearing a beige coloured kurta and a golden brown Nehru jacket, reached the residence of his mother Hiraben and touched her feet, who in turn gave him sweets.

With media in attendance, both of them also hugged each other and then Hiraben pulled her son by his kurta and gave him some motherly advice. Modi beamed as his mother, to whom he was very close, talked animatedly.

He also tweeted: "India has won. Good days ahead."

Modi will be hold thanksgiving meetings in Vadodara, Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar.