Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother Heeraben Modi, also called Heeraben, was admitted to Wednesday morning due to illness.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's beloved mother Heeraben Modi breathed her last early Friday morning.

On June 18 this year, she entered her 100th year.

Heera was admitted to a local hospital in Ahmedabad in Modi's home state of Gujarat on Wednesday after her health deteriorated. Her death was announced in an official statement by hospital authorities: "Smt Hiraba Modi passed away on 30/12/2022, at 3:39 am (early morning, during the treatment at UN Mehta Heart Hospital.”

Modi arrived in Gandhinagar city in the morning to perform the last rites at a crematorium in Gandhinagar.

Sharing a photograph of his mother, Modi in a heartfelt tribute in Hindi wrote: “A glorious century rests at the feet of God... 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.”

In a tweet, the Indian Prime Minister shared that when “I met her on 100th birthday; she said one thing, which I always remember. She said work with intelligence, live life [in] purity.”

(Source Sputnik)