India poll favourite 'bachelor' Modi admits he is married


Gujarat state Chief Minister and Bhartiya Janta Party prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi (C) greets supporters during his roadshow in Vadodara, some 110 kms from Ahmedabad on April 9, 2014.

Ahmedabad (India) (AFP) - Election frontrunner Narendra Modi has acknowledged for the first time that he is married, solving one of the biggest mysteries about the private life of the man tipped to be India's next prime minister.

The 63-year-old is routinely described as a bachelor and is thought to have lived alone in his adult life having come through the ranks of a grassroots Hindu nationalist organisation in which celibacy is expected.

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