Indian PM Narendra Modi’s mother dies at 100

Tributes poured in from across the political aisle following the death of Heeraben Modi in hospital care

PM Modi had reached Ahmedabad from Delhi on Wednesday afternoon and visited the hospital to meet his mother. PTI via Financial Express

Heeraben Modi, mother of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has died at the age of 100.

She passed away in a hospital in Ahmedabad in the early hours of Friday, reports The Times of India.

Heeraben lived at Raysan village near Gandhinagar city with the prime minister's younger brother, Pankaj Modi. Modi regularly visited Raysan to spend time with his mother during most of his visits to Gujarat.

Sharing a photo of his mother on Twitter, Modi recalled what she told him when he met her on her 100th birthday in June.

"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," tweeted Modi, who attended her last rites in Gandhinagar.

In a heartfelt note, the prime minister wrote, “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."

President Droupadi Murmu expressed her condolences over the passing of Heeraben. In a tweet (in Hindi), she said, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother Heeraba's hundred years of struggle is a symbol of Indian ideals. Shri Modi imbibed the spirit of 'matradevobhav' and the values of Hiraba in his life. I pray for the peace of the holy soul. My condolences to the family!”

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, among others, expressed their condolences for the departed soul.