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It is? Modi perspires four times a day to ensure face glow? But why he loved ACs?

By Rajiv Shah 
A former Gujarat government official recently shared a tweet  by Subramaniam Swamy where a video shows Prime Minister Narendra Modi telling school children in his hometown Vadnagar that their face would glow if they perspire four times a day. He suggested his face was glowing exactly because of this reason.
I have no idea whether facial glow is linked with how many times you perspire in a day, but what I know is, Modi would profusely avoid any perspiration when he was Gujarat chief minister. Thus, in 2006, Modi undertook a fast in support of the Narmada project, which he said the Centre was not supporting. The fast, it was declared, lasted for about 51 hours.
I don't recall which month it was, but to avoid perspiration, he got installed air conditions in the open, just next to the spot where he and his colleagues were undertaking fast for the Narmada dam. When some enterprising journalists tried watching the ACs, they were manhandled -- for it would show his fast in poor light. Similar ACs used to be set up on the rostrum from where Modi would address public rallies.
To add to this, bureaucrats entering his chamber in Gandhinagar Sachivalaya would come out complaining that AC in Modi's room was so high that it was impossible to tolerate the cold, and they would wish to get out as early as possible.

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