NEW DELHI, Apr 27: Narmadaben Modi, aunt of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was undergoing treatment for coronavirus infection, died at the government civil hospital in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. She was 80.
Narmadaben lived in the New Ranip area in Ahmedabad with her children.
“Our aunt Narmadaben was admitted to the civil hospital some ten days ago after her condition deteriorated following coronavirus infection,” said Prahlad Modi, the prime minister’s younger brother.
“She breathed her last at the hospital today,” he said.
Her husband Jagjivandas, brother of the prime minister’s father Damodardas, had died many years ago.
(Manas Dasgupta)
