Sheila Dikshit dead: She was well till Friday, the end came all of the sudden.
Sheila Dikshit, one of the tallest leaders of Congress and Delhi’s longest-serving CM, passed away at 81 after a prolonged illness on Saturday
Highlights
1. Sheila Dikshit had undergone multiple surgeries over the past few years,but was doing well till Friday
2. On Saturday morning,the former,Dehli CM complained of breathless
3. she suffer a sudden cardiac hospital,and was declared dead at 3:55pm
Her body will be taken to the Congress headquarters in central Delhi before the last rites at 2.30 pm at Nigam Bodh Ghat, on the banks of the Yamuna.
BJP's Sushma Swaraj and National Conference's Omar Abdullah were among the leaders who came to the Nizamuddin home of the former Delhi Chief Minister.
Delhi Today
The Delhi government has declared a two-day state mourning for Sheila Dikshit's death, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia tweeted.
Delhi has no full stops and is not at all a static city. This was something which acted as the governing principle for Sheila Dikshit, the Congress leader who ruled the city for three consecutive terms as its chief minister from December 1998 to December 2013, and passed away on Saturday, fighting a battle to revive the fortunes of her party as president of its Delhi unit.
Three-time Delhi chief minister and Congress stalwart Sheila Dikshit, who gave the national capital its modern look, passed away Saturday afternoon at a private hospital here after suffering cardiac arrest. She was 81.
About Sheila Dikshit
Sheila was pitchforked into the city’s politics in 1998 when asked by party president Sonia Gandhi to contest the Lok Sabha polls from East Delhi seat. From almost a state of political hibernation, she now had a colossal task to perform.
This huge constituency with 20 assembly seats for long had remained a pocket borough of Congress veteran Har Kishan Lal Bhagat before he lost in 1991.
Thereafter, the BJP managed to turn this seat into its stronghold, winning it again in the 1996 general elections and the 1997 by-polls.
Dikshit was president of Delhi Congress and had served as Delhi's chief minister for 15 years from 1998-2013.
As the longest serving woman chief minister who steered her party to victory for three consecutive terms in 1998, 2003 and 2008, Dikshit ushered in an era of all-round development that transformed Delhi into a world class capital.
Narendra Modi
Deeply saddened by the demise of Sheila Dikshit Ji. Blessed with a warm and affable personality, she made a noteworthy contribution to Delhi’s development. Condolences to her family and supporters. Om Shanti.
Priyanka Gandhi
Dikshit will be remembered as the CM who brought more than 70 new flyovers to Delhi, easing out traffic woes. Her last instruction to party workers was to stage a protest outside BJP headquarters against the detention of Congress leader
Rahul Gandhi.
"I’m devastated to hear about the passing away of Sheila Dikshit Ji, a beloved daughter of the Congress Party, with whom I shared a close personal bond.My condolences to her family & the citizens of Delhi, whom she served selflessly as a 3 term CM, in this time of great grief," tweeted Congress president
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