PM Narendra Modi's mother Heeraben Modi passes away at 100

Heeraben Modi, 100, the mother of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, passed away on Friday morning. She was admitted to Ahmedabad's U N Mehta Hospital.

Narendra Modi tweeted early this morning. "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."

"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," he further said.

On Wednesday in the late afternoon, PM Modi and Bhupendra Patel, the chief minister of Gujarat, paid his mother a visit.

She resided in Raysan in the Gandhinagar district with her youngest son Pankaj, a retired employee from the Gujarat government.

PM Modi dedicated a blog to his mother, Heeraben Modi underlining her sacrifices. "Today, I feel extremely happy and fortunate to share that my mother Smt. Heeraba Modi is entering her hundredth year. This is



going to be her birth centenary year.” wrote PM Modi.

Recalling hardships his mother faced during her childhood, PM Modi said, “My Mother is as simple as she is extraordinary. Just like all mothers.” At a tender age, PM Modi’s mother lost her mother. He said, “She does not even remember my grandmother’s face or the comfort of her lap. She spent her entire childhood without her mother.”

Modi remembered the small home in Vadnagar where he lived with his parents and brothers, which had mud walls and a clay tile roof. He listed a great number of ordinary challenges that his mother faced but conquered.

He described how his mother worked to support the family's meagre income in addition to performing all household duties by herself. To help with household costs, she used to wash utensils at a few different homes and carve out time to spin charkha.

According to PM Modi, his mother had a great deal of regard for people who work in cleaning and sanitation. His mother in Vadnagar would never let somebody clean the drain next to their home leave without offering them tea.