New Delhi, India (BBN)-Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached New Delhi Wednesday morning to pay tribute to the Indian First Lady, Suvra Mukherjee.
Hasina will also hold talks with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi during her day-long visit, reports the Hindustan Times.
Suvra Mukherjee, the wife of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, breathed her last at 10:51am on Tuesday at the age of 74.
The leaders of Indian political parties, government and military officials and commoners also paid their tribute to the First Lady.
The mortal remains of the 74-year-old wife of President Pranab Mukherjee were taken to her parliamentarian son Abhijit Mukherjee’s bungalow in Delhi on Tuesday evening so that people could pay their final tribute.
The Bangladesh premier, a close friend of Suvra, was received by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj when she arrived in Delhi on Wednesday morning.
Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj receives Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on her arrival in New Delhi on August 19, 2015. Hasina reach Delhit to attend President Mukherjee’s wife Suvra Mukherjee’s funeral. Photo: Ministry of External Affairs of India
She later met Mukherjee and his daughter Sharmistha and offered her condolences.
She also laid a wreath on the First Lady’s body.
She was accompanied by Foreign Minister AH Mahmud Ali, her younger sister Sheikh Rehana and daughter Saima Wazed.
Before he moved to Rashtrapati Bhavan, Mukherjee and Suvra stayed at the bungalow at 13, Talkatora Road throughout his career as a cabinet minister even though he was entitled to larger accommodation.
The reason was that the Mukherjee family considered the bungalow auspicious because of its number.
Mukherjee is the country’s 13th president.
Earlier on Tuesday, Suvra’s body was kept in Rashtrapati Bhavan, where a host of dignitaries paid their last respects to the First Lady who passed away at the Army Research and Referral Hospital after being in intensive care for more than a week.
Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice HL Dattu and Congress President Sonia Gandhi were among the dignitaries who visited Rashtrapati Bhavan to pay their tributes to the First Lady.
The cremation will be held at the Lodhi Road crematorium on Wednesday.
BBN/SS/ANS
