MUMBAI: The wife of chief minister Devendra Fadnavis sparked a controversy on Tuesday by calling Prime Minister

“father of the nation” while wishing him on his birthday.

“Wishing the father of the country Narendra Modi ji a very happy birthday, who inspires us to work relentlessly towards the betterment of the society,” Amruta Fadnavis

on the occasion on Modi’s 69th birthday.

Taking objection to the tweet, NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik said: “It is an agenda to project Modi as the father of the nation and it will never succeed.”

In the past, when Mahatma Gandhi’s photograph was replaced with Modi’s on the Khadi Gramodyog calendar, the opposition had criticised the move.