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Surat Friday, 20 February 2015 (Agency) A Bhavnagar businessman has offered a whopping Rs 2.95 crore for the monogrammed suit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the dying hours of an auction on Friday. The bid by Bhavnagar-based ship breaker Komalkant Sharma, owner of Leela Group of Companies, is the highest for the two-piece ensemble so far.Earlier, US-based NRI-run Avanti Corporation submitted a bid of Rs 2.91 crore. A representative of the company Sanjay Ojha submitted the written offer



on behalf of Avanti Corporation. Prior to that, a bid of Rs 2.86 crore was made by Rajesh Jain, who is Managing Director of Haryana-based LPS Bossard company.On the last day of the three-day auction, there were many bids for the suit that Modi wore during his meeting with US President Barack Obama last month. The suit is being auctioned along with 455 items that Modi received as gifts during his nearly nine-month tenure as Prime Minister to generate funds for his ambitious 'Clean Ganga Mission'.
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