Narendra Modi meets widow of Param Vir Chakra recipient Abdul Hamid

AHMEDABAD: BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today met Rasoolan Bibi, the widow of Param Vir Chakra recipient Abdul Hamid.

Modi presented a shawl to Rasoolan Bibi, who blessed him to (be able to) serve the nation and do good for the people of the country, an official press release here said.

Bibi, a resident of Ghazipur of Uttar Pradesh, and her two children had come here to meet Modi, it said.

Bibi said she had heard Modi's speech at Rewari on the television, after which wanted to meet him.

Abdul Hamid (1933-65), a soldier in the 4th Battalion, The Grenadiers of the Indian Army, died in the Khem Karan sector during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. He was posthumously awarded India's highest military decoration, the Param Vir Chakra.