NEW DELHI: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s wife Amruta Fadnavis remark calling PM Narendra Modi as ‘Father of the Nation’ has landed in controversy. She was responding to a question related to Mahatma Gandhi. Amruta Fadnavis made this statement during an event organized by a writers’ association in Nagpur this week.

"Mahatma Gandhi is the Father of the Nation and Modi-ji is the Father of New India. There are two Fathers of the Nation — one from this era, one from that era," she said. Amruta’s social media posts has also become controversial earlier. In a message for the PM in 2019, she had tweeted: "Wishing the Father of our Country Narendra Modi ji a very Happy Birthday”. Meanwhile, her remark is being widely criticized.