Indira Hridayesh was one of the most popular faces of the Congress in undivided Uttar Pradesh and later in Uttarakhand, and her death comes just months before the party’s elections in the hill state. In charge of the state of Congress, Indira Hridayesh was at Uttarakhand Sadan for a meeting, according to Devender Yadav. “She died as a result of a heart attack,” he stated.
Indira Hridayesh died on Sunday, and Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat expressed his condolences in New Delhi, saying she had played a key role in the politics of both Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand for four decades.
Subodh Uniyal, the state government’s spokesman and cabinet minister, said he and other politicians of his generation had learned a lot from Hridayesh, who was able to transcend above party politics. She stayed with the party through all of its changes and was regarded as a formidable strategist. She was the party’s go-to person for all matters about parliamentary affairs.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi sent condolence sentiments via Twitter. Hridayesh remained involved in politics till her death. On Saturday, she attended a meeting of her party’s leaders in Delhi, where she discussed plans for increasing her party’s performance in the 2022 assembly elections.
She was born on April 7, 1971, and was elected to the Legislative Council of the undivided Uttar Pradesh for the first time in 1974. She served four terms on the UP Legislative Council. In 2000, she was elected as an interim member of the Uttarakhand legislative assembly after the state was formed.
In 2002, she was elected to the Uttarakhand legislature from Haldwani and served in the Narayan Dutt Tewari cabinet as a minister. She was elected to the Uttarakhand legislature twice, in 2012 and 2017, and served as a minister in the Vijay Bahuguna and Harish Rawat governments.
