Vasundhara Raje, Ashok Gehlot condole demise of former Rajmata of Jodhpur royal family

Rajmata of the erstwhile Jodhpur royal family and former MP, Krishna Kumari, died in Jodhpur early on Tuesday. She was 92.

Krishna Kumari was admitted to a private hospital in Jodhpur on Sunday after she suffered a cardiac arrest. On Monday night her condition further deteriorated and she breathed her last around 1am. A pall of gloom descended in Jodhpur and surroundings as the news the of demise of the former “Rajmata” spread around.

Krishna Kumari is survived by two daughters, former Jodhpur MP Chandresh Kumari and Shailesh Kumari, and son Gaj Singh, erstwhile ruler of Jodhpur and former Rajya Sabha member.

Thousands of people, including Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and former chief minister Ashok Gehlot, members of erstwhile royal families attended the funeral at the royal cremation ground, Jaswant Thada.

Before this, her body was kept at Umaid Bhawan Palace for the people to pay their last repects to the departed soul. Krishna Kumari was born on February 10, 1926, in Dhrangadhra (Saurashtra) Gujarat and was married on 14 February 1943 to the then Maharaja of Jodhpur, Hanwant Singh. After the demise of Hanwant Singh in a plane crash, she single-handedly managed the family and other responsibilities and In 1971, when the then PM Indira Gandhi abolished the privy purse, Krishna Kumari jumped into electoral fray and won as an independent candidate.