Times of India: Ahmedabad: Thursday, 11 February
2016.
Jashodaben Modi, 64, the estranged wife of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, filed an RTI application on Wednesday seeking details and a copy
of the PM's passports. She filed her application at the Regional Passport
Office (RPO), Ahmedabad.
The application comes after Jashodaben was denied a
passport in November last year because she failed to produce her marriage
certificate or a joint affidavit with her spouse. She had sought a passport to
go abroad and meet relatives and friends of her family.
A relative of Jashodaben who accompanied her to the RPO
on Wednesday told TOI that the PM's wife had asked for details and a copy each
of the maiden passport, renewed passports and the passport issued to Modi after
he became Gujarat chief minister. "Her RTI application has also sought all
related applications and documents that were submitted," Jashodaben's
relative said.
The PM's wife went to the RPO in an autorickshaw
accompanied by her brother Ashok Modi and another relative.
She left the office in 15 minutes after submitting the
application. "I have come for my personal work," she said but did not
elaborate.
Regional passport officer Z A Khan said they were
scrutinizing her application. "We will give a reply within the stipulated
time frame of 30 days," Khan said. Just after Modi became PM, Jashodaben
had filed an RTI application seeking details of the security she was entitled
to as wife of the prime minister.
In November last year, Mehsana superintendent of police
had declined to give the information saying the matter pertained to security
and could not be disclosedunder RTI.