President’s wife Suvra Mukherjee passes away

<g data-gr-id="49">Suvra</g> Mukherjee, <g data-gr-id="30">wife</g> of President of India Pranab Mukherjee, died <g data-gr-id="24">hereon</g> Tuesday morning, 11 days after she was hospitalised in a critical condition. An accomplished Rabindra Sangeet singer, she was 74.

Admitted to the Army Research and Referral Hospital here on Aug 7 with complaints of breathlessness and discomfort, <g data-gr-id="27">Suvra</g> breathed her last at 10.51 AM. “It is informed with deep sorrow that First Lady <g data-gr-id="28">Smt</g>.

<g data-gr-id="25">Suvra</g> Mukherjee passed away this morning (August 18, 2015). She left for her heavenly abode at 10.51 AM,” Rashtrapati Bhawan spokesman Venu Rajamony said in a statement.

Since her admission, <g data-gr-id="31">Suvra</g> was in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). She became the first First Lady to die when her spouse is still in office. <g data-gr-id="32">Suvra</g> leaves two sons Abhijit, a Congress MP, and Indrajit and daughter Sharmistha, a spokesperson of the Congress.

Her body was kept in the ADC room opposite the President’s study and a large number of people paid their last respects.

They also offered their condolences to the President. The cremation will take place at the Lodhi Road crematorium on Wednesday. As soon as the news of her death trickled in, Vice President Hamid Ansari, PM Narendra Modi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee expressed condolences.