It was an emotional reunion of 26-year-old Jeet Bahadur, a Nepalese youth, with his family after about 16 years of separation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has had a key role in this reunion.
Bahadur had got lost in India and Modi found him in Ahmedabad. Since then he played the role of a guardian to him, looking after him and ensuring his education and well-being. He also made the special effort of ensuring that Bahadur's family is located in Nepal and he is reunited with them.
"How happy are you now? You should be happy after seeing your lost son after so many years," Modi told Bahadur's mother during the reunion.
The grateful mother expressed thanks to Modi for looking after her son and educating him like his "dharma putra".
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The poor family, which lives in a slum colony of Nawaalparas district of Nepal, had concluded that Jeet Bahadur had got lost for ever after Dasharath failed to locate him about 16 years ago.
"It is my good luck that I lived with a VIP but I never felt that I was living with a VIP," said Jeet, who was a huge attraction here.
The second year student of BBA plans to continue his studies in India despite his family being located after so long. He now cannot speak his mother tongue Nepali although he understands it but is fluent with Hindi.