Written by: Express News Service
2 min readKolkataDec 18, 2011 05:33 AM IST
First published on: Dec 18, 2011 at 05:33 AM IST
After a prolonged illness,81-year-old Gayatri Devi,mother of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee passed away at a state-run hospital on Saturday. She is survived by four sons and two daughters.
Gayatri Devi,who was suffering from age-related ailments,was admitted in the SSKM Hospital on November 25.
Mamata,who was in Delhi,rushed back to Kolkata on Thursday night after she was informed that her mother’s condition was deteriorating.
The Chief Minister had recently described her mother being “the only attachment in her life”. On a Bengali television channel two days ago,Mamata said: “It is really sad to see Maa lying in the hospital bed,her eyes closed. It pains me to see her eyes closed. Whenever I went out of my house,I used to look at her smiling face before leaving. You all know I have no family; mother was my only attachment.”
Trinamool Congress leaders close to Mamata say her “Maa Mati Manush” slogan was an expression of gratitude for her mother besides symbolising the land movements and the outpouring of an overwhelming support of people in her struggle to topple the Left.
In year 2000,A B Vajpayee,then Prime Minister of the NDA government,had visited Mamata’s residence to pay respect to her mother. Mamata was the union minister for railways then.
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