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Punjab CM Capt Amarinder's Mother 'Rajmata' Mohinder Kaur Dead At 96

IANS, 24 Jul, 2017 09:54 AM
  • Punjab CM Capt Amarinder's Mother 'Rajmata' Mohinder Kaur Dead At 96

Amarinder Singh has been bereaved following the demise of his mother, ‘Rajmata’ Mohinder Kaur, who passed away in her Patiala home on Monday evening. She was 96.

 

A former Congress MP, Mohinder Kaur, had been keeping unwell for some time. She breathed her last at the family’s Moti Mahal residence in Patiala at 7.24 pm, as a result of multiple system failure triggered by a natural weakening due to old age, according to an official spokesperson.

 

The cremation will take place at Shahi Samadhan, Patiala, on Tuesday.

 

Captain Amarinder has rushed to Patiala to perform the last rites, which will be conducted on Tuesday. The cabinet meeting and other programmes scheduled for tomorrow stand cancelled, an official spokesperson said.

 

‘Rajmata’ had not been keeping too well for some months and had even been hospitalised in PGI, Chandigarh, in March this year after gastro-intestinal bleeding. She is survived by two sons and two daughters.

 

Mohinder Kaur, wife of the late Maharaja of Patiala, Yadavindra Singh, was born in Ludhiana, undivided Punjab, to Sardar Harchand Singh Jaijee, a nobleman of Patiala State and a member of the Patiala Riyasat Praiya Mandar (Patiala State Peoples’ Forum, an affiliate of the Indian National Congress). She got married at the age of 16 in 1938.

 

A former member of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, Rajmata had been actively involved in various political, social and other philanthropic activities.

 
 
 
 

All India Congress Committee president Sonia Gandhi, vice-president Rahul Gandhi and other senior leaders of the Congress called up the Chief Minister to express their condolences.

 

Punjab Governor VP Singh Bhadnore, Speaker Rana KP Singh, Deputy Speaker Ajaib Singh Bhatti and state’s ministers have also condoled the demise of Mohinder Kaur.

 

The Punjab State IAS Officers' Association and Punjab Civil Services Officers' Association also expressed their condolences.

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