PM Modi’s mother Heeraben Modi, who was admitted to an Ahmedabad hospital, passed away early morning today at a hospital in Ahmedabad. She was 99.
“Hiraben Modi passed away on 30/12/2022 at 3.30 am during the treatment at U N Mehta Heart Hospital,” the medical bulletin said. “A glorious century rests at God’s feet,” Modi said in a tweet.
Prime Minister Modi recalled that when he met her on her 100th birthday, she had told him: “work with intelligence and live life with purity”. Modi reached Ahmedabad from Delhi on Wednesday afternoon and visited the hospital to meet his ailing mother.
He remained at the hospital for more than an hour and also spoke to doctors there. Hiraben, also called Hiraba, lived at Raysan village near Gandhinagar city with Modi’s younger brother Pankaj Modi. The prime minister regularly visited Raysan and spent time with his mother during his visits to Gujarat.
RSS condoles death of PM Modi’s mother
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Friday expressed grief over the demise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother and said her life was a great example of devotion to values.
“On this sad occasion, all of us volunteers of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) pay our respects to her,” the Sangh said in a statement issued by its chief Mohan Bhagwat and general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale.
