PM to join Suvra Mukherjee`s funeral

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will go to New Delhi on Wednesday to attend the funeral of President Pranab Mukherjee’s wife Suvra Mukherjee.

"The Prime Minister will leave Dhaka for New Delhi tomorrow morning to join the funeral of Suvra Mukherjee," PM`s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told.

Bangabandhu`s younger daughter Sheikh Rehana and Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali will accompany the Prime Minister, he said.

The Prime Minister will return home tomorrow afternoon, the press secretary added.

Suvra Mukherjee died of respiratory disease at a New Delhi hospital this morning at the age of 74.

A release of the secretary of Indian president said today "It is informed with deep sorrow that First Lady Smt. Suvra Mukherjee passed away this morning (August 18, 2015). She left for her heavenly abode at 10:51 am".

Suvra Mukherjee was suffering from a respiratory ailment and had suffered a cardiac arrest about a fortnight back. She was undergoing treatment at the Army (Research and Referral) Hospital in Delhi.