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Former Uttar Pradesh MLA Shri Narayan, 106, said he was delighted when he received a surprise phone call from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday morning.
The prime minister asked about her well-being and sought her blessings in “difficult times” due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to Shri Narayan.
Shri Narayan, aka Bhulai Bhai, has had the distinction of working with Jana Sangh’s founding leaders, including Syama Prasad Mookerjee and Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
A resident of the Pagar village of the Kushinagar district in the Ramkola block, Shri Narayan represented the district’s Naurangia assembly constituency (now known as Khadda) twice, first between 1974 and 77 and then from 1977 to 1980.
I was at home, drinking tea, when the phone rang this morning.
The caller from the Prime Minister’s Office told Kannieya, great-grandson of Shri Narayan, that Prime Minister Modi wanted to speak to him and then put the phone on hold. Moments later, the Prime Minister was on the line and greeted Sri Narayan: “Namaskar Narayan ji kaisey hain? After the exchange of jokes, the Prime Minister, in a lighter vein, asked Narayan that he must have completed a century. The former MLA replied, “106 ho gaya hai” (I am now 106 years old).
Faced with this, the Prime Minister asked him, “Must you have seen five generations?”
Narayan’s answer was “yes”. Then the Prime Minister revealed the purpose of calling: “It has been a long time since I saw you and today I thought about seeking your blessing at this difficult time.”
