Indian PM’s tea stall to become tourist shrine

Pedestrians walk past the former ‘tea stall’ (left) of Damodardas Mulchand Modi. Photo: AFP

Now it is a rusting hulk in a small town railway station, but Indian authorities want the stall where Prime Minister Narendra Modi sold tea with his father to become a global tourist magnet.

The nationalist leader spoke often during his election campaign of his humble roots as a “chai wallah’s son” and the authorities plan a US$15mil (RM64.47mil) project to spruce up those roots in his hometown of Vadnagar.