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PM's Gifts Auction Nation

COMMONWEALTH Narendra Modi is the first Prime Minister of India, who
has decided to e-auction his gifts for the holy cause
GAMES 2022 like the salvation of Ganga through Namami Gange, the
WINNERS' T-SHIRTS lifeline of India.
-G Kishan Reddy, Minister of Culture, Tourism and
Development of North Eastern Region

The autographed T-shirts of the women's and GIFTS GIVEN BY PLAYERS REMAINED THE MOST
men's wrestling teams, who won 12 medals POPULAR
including 6 gold, also reached close to Rs 50 lakh,
ie Rs 49.75 lakh. The autographed T-shirt gifted There was huge participation of people in the auction but
on behalf of the women's and men's weightlifting the enthusiasm for Gifts autographed by players remained
teams bid for over Rs 49 lakh. T-shirts signed by the most. The players from Commonwealth Games 2022,
the lawn bowling gold medalist women's team Deaflympics 2022, Tokyo 2022 Paralympics, and Thomas
and silver medal-winning men's team bid for Rs Cum Championships 2022 had given items such as
49.50 lakh. T-shirts, table tennis rackets, bags, and boxing gloves.
The base bid for the men's hockey team Over half a dozen of these gifts received more than 200
autographed T-shirt was Rs 3 lakh but the final bids. The highest bid in the auction of Prime Minister's gifts
bid went up to Rs 42.69 lakh. The women's was Rs 51 lakh for a Badminton racket bearing Thomas Cup
team's autographed T-shirt fetched Rs 38.19 Championship 2022 gold medalist K Srikanth's autograph.
lakh. 208 people bid for the orange-coloured 214 people bid for this racket with a base bid of just Rs 5
T-shirt of the Deaflympic medalist, with the final lakh. Along with the autograph on this racket was written
bid being Rs 49.65 lakh. "THANK YOU SIR FOR YOUR SUPPORT". At the same time,
For the T-shirt autographed by the members who 208 people bid for the signature bag of the winners of the
represented India at Deaflympics, 222 persons same championship and the price reached Rs 49.61 lakh.
quoted bids, with the final bid being Rs 47.69 At the number two position was an autographed T-shirt of
lakh. The final bid for Angavastra, signed by the Tokyo Paralympics 2020 shooting gold medalist Manish
Deaflympic women's and men's shooting team, Narwal which fetched Rs 50.25 lakh. Its base bidding
reached Rs 45.60 lakh. started at Rs 10 lakh. At number three was a T-shirt
GIFTS ARE BEING AUCTIONED presented by Para Powerlifting Gold Medalist Sudhir, with
his autograph for which a bid of Rs 50.20 lakh was made.
SINCE 2019 BOXING GLOVES FOR RS 50 LAKH AND JAVELIN FOR

2019: 1805 2020: 2772 The autographed boxing gloves of Commonwealth Games
RS 40 LAKH
2022 Boxing Gold Medalist Nikhat Zareen and IBA Bronze
2021: 1348 2022: 1200 Medalist were bid for Rs 50 lakh. 217 people bid for
Commonwealth Games para table tennis gold medalist
Bhavina Patel's racket and the price reached Rs 42 lakh.
164 people also bid to buy the javelin of Anu Rani who
participated in the Commonwealth Games and the price
BID FOR 2 FEET STATUE OF reached above Rs 40 lakh. The autographed gloves of the
NETAJI CROSSED RS 41.71 LAKH women's and men's boxing teams of the Commonwealth
Mysore-based renowned sculptor Arun Games 2022 went up to Rs 45 lakh, with a base bid of just
Yogiraj presented a 2-feet tall black marble Rs 5 lakh.
statue of Subhas Chandra Bose during KASHI VISHWANATH TEMPLE MODEL BIDS FOR RS
50 LAKH
his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra The grand wooden model of the Kashi Vishwanath temple
Modi in April 2022. 139 people bid for it had the highest number of bidders which stood at 284. Its
in the auction. The statue, which had a base bid was only Rs 16,200 but the final price reached
base bid of Rs 5 lakh, fetched more than Rs 50 lakh. Last year's auction saw the highest bid of 140
Rs 41.71 lakh. people for the Sardar Patel statue.

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