Vadodara: In addition to tailoring abilities and a profitable enterprise that his father and uncle arrange, Dharmendra Chauhan from Dahod inherited a consumer who most would envy.
Dharmendra’s store Sangam Tailors designed the half-sleeve kurtas for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and even stitched them for him until he was in Gujarat because the chief minister.
The Dahod-based tailor knew Modi ever since he was an RSS pracharak and travelled the size and breadth of central Gujarat. The Chauhans have been additionally related to the RSS and Modi used to go to their store typically.
“My uncle Amrut Chauhan and father Kanaiyalal Chauhan knew Modi intently because the Seventies. He used to spend time at our store and his garments have been additionally stitched there. He used to put on kurtas and pyjamas these days,” mentioned Dharmendra.
Dharmendra mentioned that the half-sleeve kurta was made for Modi because it was straightforward to clean. “Pracharaks had their very own garments. A half-sleeve kurta is straightforward to clean and therefore we began stitching these for him,” he mentioned.
Not many knew that Sangam Tailors have been stitching Modi’s garments until he got here to Dahod in 2012. “Throughout his speech on the Sadbhavana Mission occasion in Dahod, he talked about this,” mentioned Dharmendra. Modi had mentioned then that there was a whole lot of dialogue relating to his garments and he would open a secret about them. He had mentioned that his garments have been stitched by Sangam Tailors in Dahod and even remembered Amrut.
Dharmendra mentioned that he continued stitching garments for Modi until he turned the PM and moved to Delhi. “I met a number of years again in Delhi once I went there with former union minister and Dahod MP Jaswantsinh Bhabhor. He met me on the Parliament,” he added.
Dharmendra mentioned that in wake of the safety and the extraordinarily busy schedule that the PM has throughout his go to on Wednesday, he was unsure if he would get an opportunity to fulfill him. “However I'll go early to the venue and make sure that I get an excellent seat for his programme,” he added.