Jashodaben Modi is the ex wife of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. She had an arranged marriage with Modi in 1968. At the time of their marriage, Narendra Modi was 18 and Jashodaben was just 16.Soon ... Jashodaben Narendrabhai Modi (née Chimanlal Modi; [4][5] born 1952) is an Indian former school teacher and the estranged wife of Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India. The couple were married in 1968 when she was about 16 and Modi was 18. [6][7][8] A couple years into the marriage, her husband, Narendra Modi, left her. [9][10] He did not acknowledge the marriage publicly until he was legally required to do so prior to the 2014 Indian general elections to the Lok Sabha. [11][12][13] In ... A day after BJP prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi declared in his poll affidavit filed in Vadodara that he was a married and that name of his wife is Jashodaben , his elder brother Sombhai Modi issued a statement here on Thursday to explain that the marriage was forced on a teenaged Narendra. Jashodaben is the wife of Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India. She married him when she was 11 years old, but they separated after three years. Learn more about her life, education, career, and relationship with Modi.