GG News Bureau
Gandhinagar, 30th Dec. The mortal remains of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother Hiraben, who died early Friday here, were cremated at a crematorium in Gandhinagar.
Hiraben died at 3.30 a.m. in an Ahmedabad hospital. She was 99 years old.
The news of her death was shared in a bulletin from the UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre, where she was admitted on Wednesday after her health deteriorated.
After learning of her death, the prime minister reached his brother Pankaj Modi’s home in Raysan village on the outskirts of Gandhinagar, where their mother’s mortal remains were kept.
PM Modi arrived in Ahmedabad early in the morning and went straight to his younger brother’s house. He paid floral tributes to his mother and bowed at her feet. Later, PM Modi carried her mortal remains to the cremation ground for the final rites.
Her mortal remains were consigned to flames by the prime minister and his brothers.
Earlier, the prime minister tweeted that “a great journey of 100 years” had come to an end with the death of his mother.
“A great journey of 100 years has come to an end. I have witnessed three qualities in mother, a journey like that of a tapasvi (saint), a selfless worker and life dedicated to values,” PM Modi tweeted.
“When I met her on her 100th birthday she told one thing which I always remember. “Kam karo buddhi thi, jivan jivo suddhi thi” (work using your brain and live life with purity,” he said in the tweet.
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