Two artefacts received by PM Modi as gifts have fetched Rs 5 lakh each during an auction, the culture minister Mahesh Sharma said on Monday. The painting of PM Narendra Modi holding a bag at a railway station and a wooden bike were auctioned for Rs 5 lakh each and both had a base price of Rs 50,000 and Rs 40,000 respectively.
The culture ministry had organised a two-day physical auction of the gifts received by the PM.
PTI
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During the auction which ended on Monday, 270 out of the 1900 item put on auction were sold and the e-auction of the remaining items or gifts will be auctioned. The amount raised from both physical as well as the e-auctioned will be used for ‘Namami Gange’ project – the project to clean river Ganga.