Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has been bereaved as his mother Mata Mohinder Kaur passed away in her Patiala home on Monday evening (July 24).
A former Congress MP, Mata Mohinder Kaur, aged 96, had been keeping unwell for some time. She breathed her last at the family’s Moti Mahal residence in Patiala at 7.24 p.m., as a result of multiple system failure triggered by a natural weakening due to old age, according to an official spokesperson.
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. Mata Mahinder Kaur is survived by two sons and two daughters.
Punjab CM Amarinder Singh (R) Bereaved as his Mother Mohinder Kaur (R) Passes Away in Patiala [File Photos]
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, Mata Mahinder Kaur had been actively involved in various political, social and other philanthropic activities.
All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Sonia Gandhi, Vice President Rahul Gandhi and other senior leaders of the Congress called up Amarinder Singh to express their condolences.
Governor Punjab VP Singh Bhadnore, former Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal, Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana KP Singh, Deputy Speaker Ajaib Singh Bhatti, state’s Ministers Brahma Mohindra, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Manpreet Singh Badal, Rana Gurjeet Singh, Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa,. Sadhu Singh Dharmsot,. Charanjeet Singh Channi. Razia Sultana and Aruna Chaudhary, besides several party MLAs and MPs have also expressed their condolences with Amarinder Singh.
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