Kanubhai Gandhi had earlier worked for NASA.
By Sreekanth A. Nair
It would come as a shocking surprise for every Indian that the grandson of the father of the nation is living in an old age home in the national capital. Kanubhai Gandhi, the eldest son of Mahatma Gandhi’s third son Ramdas, is living in a Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram at Gautampuri in South Delhi.
The government of India sent a union minister to visit Kanbhai Gandhi, 87, and provide him with all necessities.
The Press Trust of India reported that Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma met Kanubhai Gandhi and spent 45 minutes with him on the direction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“PM has taken note of reports about Shri Kanubhai Gandhi. He asked Minister Mahesh Sharma to meet Kanubhai,” Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) tweeted.
“PM and Kanubhai had a long conversation. They spoke in Gujarati and had a very pleasant discussion,” PMO said in another tweet.
Modi has reportedly talked to Gandhi over the phone.
“PM directed me to come here and to submit a report on the expectations and requirements of Kanubhai”, said Sharma.
“PM spoke to Kanubhaiji in Gujarati and both had a cheerful conversation where they refreshed some memories from the past”, Sharma added.
“I was happy then, I’m happy now as well. He (Mahesh Sharma) came here to meet me, we had a good talk”, Kanubhai Gandhi was quoted as saying by ABP News.
Kanubhai Gandhi returned to India with his wife Shiva Lakshmi Gandhi, 85, in 2014 after spending four decades in the United States. He studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked with NASA.
After spending a one-and-a-half year in various ashrams in Gujarat, they decided to settle down at Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram on May 8.
“There are a lot of memories. I used to sit in Bapu’s lap and pull his hair, but he’d still smile at me and wrap me in his arms”, Kanubhai recalled.
“Bapu always wanted me to serve people, he wanted me to take all the pain of people and spread happiness”, he said.
He said he is an old follower of Modi and recalled the help he had extended to Modi in his earlier political career.
The grandson of Mahatma Gandhi attacked the Congress President Sonia Gandhi saying that she was against both of us and “Modi understood everything in Gujarati”.
Delhi’s SC/ST Welfare and Women and Child Welfare Minister Sandeep Kumar had visited Gandhi on Sunday and offered him help. Understanding the political importance of the issue, Sandeep Kumar also attacked the Congress party and Sonia Gandhi.
“In a bid to preserve dynastic politics, the real Gandhis have been forgotten,” he said.
2 Comments
Unfortunately this is a fraud story. Either Kanubhai is criminal or has lost his mind and does not know where he is I.e. he is totally senile. Any person who is a MIT graduate and worked for NASA in USA for 40 years is not only fully covered in Healthcare at USA’s best of the bests hospitals. He also financially is extremely rich. So don’t trust this guy. Let him die and go to hell.
oh woow dipak, you have it all figured out dont chya