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The auction began on Saturday morning, coinciding with Modi’s birthday.
”The time has arrived! It’s 10AM and the #PMMementosAuction2022 is now open & live! Head to HYPERLINK ”//pmmementos.gov.in” pmmementos.gov.in to register & participate in the auction in which exclusive gifts received by Hon’ble Prime Minister Sh @NarendraModi have been listed,” Union Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy tweeted.
At a press conference here on Friday, Reddy had said a statue of Lord Ganesha, a trident, models of the upcoming Shri Ram Mandir at Ayodhya and the Kashi-Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi will also be part of the e-auction of gifts and mementoes given to PM Modi, proceeds of which will go the Namami Gange Mission.
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Yogiraj and his team, sculpted the monolithic 28-ft statue of Netaji, made of telephone black granite stone, recently unveiled by the Prime Minister at India Gate.
Twenty-five new sporting memorabilia gifted to the Prime Minister by various sportspersons are part of the auction, a senior official of the Culture Ministry said on Friday.
The auction will conclude on October 2. Some of the gifts are on display at the National Gallery of Modern Art.