Published : 04 Feb 2014, 10:11 AM
62-year-old Jashodaben spoke to media recently and said that they split three years into their marriage and since he left "we have never been in touch".
"I know he will become PM (prime minister) one day," said the retired school teacher.
Modi, 63, has never commented on reports that he wed Jashodaben when she was 17.
However, it doesn't make her "feel bad" that Modi has never acknowledged her as his wife.
"I know he is doing so due to destiny and bad times.
"In such situations, he has to say such things and also has to lie," she said.
Modi allegedly kept the wedding secret because it meant he would not be able to climb the ladder of the puritan Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), a hardline Hindu group that frowns on key workers marrying, according to a recent Modi biography by author Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.
In 2009, a magazine tracked Jashodaben to the school where she taught but she refused to give an interview, saying she was afraid of her "powerful" husband.
Opinion surveys predict the BJP will get the most seats in the forthcoming national elections this summer.
Jashodaben now lives with a brother of hers in a village in western Gujarat.
In the interview, she talks about Modi pressing her to study more.
"I had quit studies once I went to his place and remember him saying he wanted me to pursue my education. He would mostly talk to me about completing my education."
She said the couple "parted on good terms... there were never any fights," adding: "In three years, we may have been together for all of three months."
She said she reads "everything (about him) I can get my hands on."
But, she added: "I don't think he will ever call me."