The body was taken to the Lodhi Road electric crematorium from 13, Talkatora Road, the residence of Abhijeet Mukherjee, the President’s son, where it was kept to enable people to pay their last respect. <g data-gr-id="14">Suvra</g>, 74, breathed her last at Army Research and Referral Hospital here on Tuesday. The ashes will be taken by the family to Haridwar this afternoon.
Among those present at the cremation ground were Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina, former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, several other Union ministers, Congress President Sonia Gandhi, east-Indian state West Bengal’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, her Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal and BJP leader L K Advani. <g data-gr-id="18">Suvra</g> was admitted to the hospital on August 7 after she complained of breathlessness and discomfort. Since then she was in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
Besides her husband, <g data-gr-id="19">Suvra</g> leaves behind two sons Abhijit, a Congress MP, and Indrajit and daughter Sharmistha.
Hasina meets Prez, condoles demise of his wife
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday met President Pranab Mukherjee and offered her condolences on the demise of his wife <g data-gr-id="57">Surva</g>. She also visited the 13, Talkatora Road residence of Abhijeet Mukherjee, the President’s son, and placed a wreath on <g data-gr-id="58">Surva</g> Mukherjee’s body, which has been kept there to enable people to offer their last respects. <g data-gr-id="59">Suvra</g> died yesterday. She was 74. Hasina arrived here from Dhaka this morning to attend the funeral of <g data-gr-id="60">Suvra</g> and was received at the airport by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
During her day-long visit to Delhi, she will also hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his official residence. This will be the second meeting between them since the last interaction in Dhaka when Modi had visited Bangladesh on June 6-7 during which the two countries signed 22 <g data-gr-id="64">pacts</g> to deepen cooperation besides ratifying the historic Land Boundary Agreement. Hasina’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim said in Dhaka that the Bangladesh PM will be accompanied by Foreign Minister AH Mahmud Ali, her younger sister Sheikh Rehana and daughter Saima Wazed. Hasina had developed very close relations with <g data-gr-id="65">Suvra</g> during her life in exile in Delhi soon after the August 15, 1975 coup that saw the killing of Bangladesh’s independence architect Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members.