Impressed with the prime minister, a Muslim woman has decided to name her newborn ‘Narendra Damodardas Modi’.
After failing to convince the mother Mainaz Begum againstit, the family in Parsapur Mahraur village has filed an affidavit seeking theregistration of the name.
Mainaz Begum came up with the idea while names for the boywere being discussed on May 23, the day the Lok Sabha results came in andNarendra Modi won a massive mandate.
People around her tried to make her change her mind, but shewas adamant, her father-in-law Idrees told PTI.
When her husband Mushtaq Ahmed, who works in Dubai, wasinformed, he too tried to make her drop the idea.
But he ended up agreeing to his wife’s wish.
The family then filed an affidavit addressed to the districtmagistrate and submitted it to Assistant Development Officer (panchayat)Ghanshyam Pandey.
When contacted, Pandey said he received the affidavit onFriday.
He said the application has been forwarded to the villagepanchayat secretary, who deals with the registration of births and deaths.
“Action will be takenas per the law,” he said.
In the affidavit, Mainaz Begum lavished praise on Modi andhis government’s welfare schemes, including free cooking gas connection to thepoor and financial help to construct toilets.
“He is doing very good work for the country,” it said.
The affidavit also praised Modi for the initiative to endtriple talaq.Her father-in-law Idrees said naming the childwas the family’s private affair and “no one should interfere in this.”