Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother Heeraben Modi passed away on Friday. She was 99.
She was admitted to a private hospital here on Wednesday due to health issues.
A bulletin from the UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre shared the news of her demise.
Heeraben lived with her younger son Pankaj Modi at Raysan village near Gandhinagar.
Her mortal remains were consigned to flames at a crematorium in Gandhinagar.
After learning about her death, the prime minister reached the residence of his brother Pankaj Modi at Raysan village on the outskirts of Gandhinagar, where the mortal remains of their mother were kept. PM Modi arrived at the airport in Ahmedabad in the morning and went straight to the house of his younger brother. There he offered floral tributes to his mother and bowed down at her feet. Later, PM Modi shouldered her mortal remains on way to the cremation ground for the last rites. Her mortal remains were consigned to flames by the prime minister and his brothers.
The Prime Minister had visited his mother during her birthday in June and later during the Gujarat polls where both of them cast their votes.
“A glorious century rests at the feet of God,” the Prime Minister tweeted soon after learning about her death.
“In Maa I have always felt that trinity, which contains the journey of an ascetic, the symbol of a selfless Karmayogi and a life committed to values.”
“When I met her on her birthday, she said one thing - Always remembered - Work with intelligence, live life with purity,” Modi said in a tweet.
