The ashes of the wife of elder brother of Prime Minister Narendra Modi were immersed in Ganga at Har ki Paidi on Thursday amidst Vedic rituals.
Ganga Sabha president Pradeep Jha and Ujjwal Pandit presented a Gangajali (can containing Ganga water) to Mehul Kumar Modi who performed the rituals for her deceased mother.
Bhagwati Modi, the wife of Prahlad Modi, elder brother of the PM had died on May 1 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, after cardiac arrest. She was 63 years old.
It is learnt that she had long suffered from diabetes and a day before her death, her blood sugar level had shot up.