PM Modi used to visit his mother during most of his trips to Gujarat.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted a moving tribute to his mother Heeraben Modi who died in the early hours of Friday at the age of 99. "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," the Prime Minister tweeted this morning informing his mother's death.
Sharing a photo of her, he 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," said the Prime Minister who attended her last rites in Gandhinagar.
The UN Mehta hospital in Ahmedabad where she was admitted on Tuesday night said in a statement that she died at 3.30 am. Her body was later taken to Gandhinagar.
Heeraben used to live with Pankaj Modi, the Prime Minister's younger brother, at Raysan village near Gandhinagar. PM Modi used to visit her during most of his trips to Gujarat.
PM Modi will attend the official programmes scheduled later today via video conferencing, the Prime Minister's Office said.