Narendra Modi's chair used in Agra Meeting touches Rs. 4 lakh

The bid for Narendra Modi's chair touches Rss. 4 lakh.

PTI | Agra | 27 November 2013:: The bid to purchase the chair on which BJP's prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi sat during the Agra rally has gone up to Rs.4.21 lakh even as senior leaders said the practice was against party's culture.

BJP corporator Pramod Upadhyaya, who provided the furniture during the rally, said the latest bid that he has received is of Rs.4.21 lakh from a local dealer despite him refusing to sell the chair.

A BJP leader from Etah too has made a bid of Rs. Three lakh to purchase the chair, he said.

Upadhyaya, a BJP member of the Agra Municipal Corporation, said he had no intention to sell the chair and that he would like to keep the "coveted possession".

On being contacted, Uttar Pradesh BJP Chief Laxmikant Bajpai said the matter should be put to an end as "seats were not sold in the party, one has to work to get it".

Senior BJP leader Purushottam Khandelwal said that the practice of bidding for chairs was against the culture of the party and that it was the media which had hyped the issue.

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Agra: Contractor refuses to sell the chair that Narendra Modi sat on.

Agra: Bharatiya Janata Party Prime Ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is in the spotlight again with a chair he sat on last week while addressing a rally in Agra. Reports suggest that local BJP leaders from Agra are now engaged in a bidding war in order to purchase the chair.

On Tuesday, the bidding war reached a whopping Rs 2 lakh. A resident of Agra has also offered to pay Rs 50,000 to own the chair.

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"The chair used by Narendra Modi in my house will increase it's grace. I bid Rs 1,11,000 for it which later increased to Rs 1,25,000. The people want to connect to everything that has been graced by him," said BJP MLA Yogendra Upadhyay.

However, the chair belongs to a contractor who put up the tent for the rally and is refusing to sell it. "BJP MLAs have been calling me up and asking to buy the chair. I also received a call from a businessman who is associated with the party and is offering Rs 2 lakh, but I'm not selling this chair," said the contractor, Pramod Upadhyay. [Courtesy: IBN Live].