PM Modi’s rakhi sister Sharbata Devi passes away at 104

Sharbati Devi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rakhi sister, passed away in Dhanbad on Saturday. Her funeral will take place on 11th March, Sunday.

The 104-year-old had hit the headlines when she met PM Modi at his official residence in Lok Kalyan Marg on Raksha Bandhan last year. She was invited by the prime minister himself to tie a rakhi on his wrist on the festival in last August.

Devi, who had lost her brother 50-years-ago, had a desire to celebrate the festival with the prime minister because she missed her deceased brother.

Her son had written a letter to PM Modi last year expressing her wish. Sharbati beamed with pleasure when PM Modi had obliged her along with several school girls to mark the occasion of Raksha Bandhan.

Sharbati Devi, born in the pre-partition era, was married to Dhanraj Agarwal and had nine children with him. She lost her husband and two children long ago and leaves behind four sons and three daughters.