About 1,800 mementos gifted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi since 2014 were auctioned at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi on Sunday.
The funds raised through the auction, held at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi, will go to the government’s flagship project ‘Namami Gange’.
A dedicated site -- http://pmmementos.gov.in -- has been set up to display and e-auction the mementos that are priced between Rs 100 and Rs 30,000.
The two-day physical auction shall culminate on January 28 and the e-auction will take place from January 29-31 for remaining items which are not sold during the physical auction on the portal.
The auction includes statues, photographs, paintings and articles such as angavastram, shawls, commemorative coins, traditional musical instruments, hats, pagris and jackets, etc.
Take a look at some of the mementos on the auction block.
Union Minister Piyush Goyal at the auction looking at one of the paintings. Photograph: @MinOfCultureGoI/Twitter
The mementos are all that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received since 2014 when he came to power. Photograph: @MinOfCultureGoI/Twitter
Turbans and shawls are also part of the auction. Photograph: @MinOfCultureGoI/Twitter
This idol of Radha and Krishna, the base price for which has been set at Rs 20,000, is the only gold-plated memento on auction. The 4.76 kg idol was gifted to the prime minister by the Mandvi Nagar Palika in Surat. Photograph: @MinOfCultureGoI/Twitter
A memento entitled New India 2022. Photograph: @MinOfCultureGoI/Twitter
A map of Gujarat with the lotus. Photograph: @MinOfCultureGoI/Twitter
Portrait of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, received from Hari Shankaran, Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited. Photograph: @MinOfCultureGoI/Twitter
A charkha,received from Jardoli Nagarpalika. Photograph: @MinOfCultureGoI/Twitter
A colourful painting of Mahatma Gandhi which was given to PM Modi. Photograph: @MinOfCultureGoI/Twitter
A replica of the sacred Golden Temple located in Amritsar. Photograph: @MinOfCultureGoI/Twitter
A statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj with a base price of Rs 1,000 was sold at Rs 22,000. Modi received this statue on the occasion of the launch of project of smart cities mission on June 25 2016 in Pune. Photograph: @MinOfCultureGoI/Twitter
