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NEW DELHI: The mother of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Hiraben, passed away at a hospital in Ahmedabad on Friday. She was 100 years old.
According to Indian media reports, Modi recalled his visit to his mother on her 100th birthday this year. “When I met her on her 100th birthday, she said one thing, which is always remembered that work with intelligence, live life with purity, that is, work with intelligence and live life with purity,”
PM Modi tweeted. Modi’s mother Hiraben passed away at a hospital in Ahmedabad on Friday. She was 99. A bulletin from the UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre, where she was admitted on Wednesday after her health deteriorated, announced the news of her demise.
मैं जब उनसे 100वें जन्मदिन पर मिला तो उन्होंने एक बात कही थी, जो हमेशा याद रहती है कि કામ કરો બુદ્ધિથી, જીવન જીવો શુદ્ધિથી यानि काम करो बुद्धि से और जीवन जियो शुद्धि से।
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 30, 2022
“Hiraben Modi passed away on 30/12/2022 at 3.30 am during the treatment at UN Mehta Heart Hospital,” the medical bulletin said. The Prime Minister met his mother for the last time at the hospital where she had been admitted on Wednesday.
Indian PM Modi arrived in Ahmedabad on Friday morning and reached the residence of of his brother Pankaj Modi at Raysan village on the outskirts of Gandhinagar, where the mortal remains of their mother Hiraba were kept. He sought her blessings and later carried her mortal remains. 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.
