He and his party have repeatedly said that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi worked at his father's tea shop at a railway station in Gujarat.
But Indian Railways has no information about that, they said.
According to the Right to Information Act, the Railways was asked when Damodar Das (Mr. Modi's father's name) was given a license to run a tea shop at Wadnagar railway station and whether any documents were available.
According to Live Law, a reliable Indian law website, the Central Information Commission recently said in response to a petition by Pawan Parikh, a lawyer from Haryana, that it was a very old incident and that the Ahmedabad division of the railways had no information about it.
This is not the first time that the Railways has said that it has no information on whether Narendra Modi was given a license to sell tea at the station premises and on trains.
Congress supporter and social activist Tehseen Punawala asked the question under the Right to Information Act.
The Prime Minister's father did not have a tea shop?
According to Satish Mori, a family friend of the Prime Minister and a veteran journalist from Gujarat, "it is normal for the railways not to have this information, as there was no such shop at the Wadnagar village station."
"The shop that his father used to run was a tea cart and it was also outside the station. Later, when the situation improved a bit, Mr. Modi's father started a small shop on the road near the station," he said. Mori.
Mr. The question of Modi's tea shop has been raised before. Some say that at that time Mr. Modi grew up in Wadnagar, that station was not there at that time.
Narendra Modi's biographer Nilanjan Mukherjee, however, says. When he went to Wadnagar in 2012 to do research on Modi's childhood, he also searched for Mr. Modi's father's tea shop.
He could not locate the shop at that station. But the locals showed him a very small shop in a small alley in front of the station and told him that it was Mr. Modi's father had a shop.
"It's the kind of shop we call a kiosk in English. The people there told me that everything from salty and biscuit food to sewing needles was available in that shop. Chao was sold along with it."
'' Everything is available in the same shop as in the village shops. But his father's income from selling tea in that shop was probably very low, "said Mr. Mukherjee.
He went on to explain the reason, while Mr. When Modi was growing up in Wadnagar, it was a very small village. There was a station on the meter gauge rail line. One or two trains a day.