Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s father, Anand Singh Bisht, passed away this morning. Bisht was undergoing treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi since last month for kidney ailment.

His body is being taken to his village in Pauri district of Uttarakhand.

Informing about the demise, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi said in a statement,”Honourable CM’s father left for his heavenly abode at 10.44 am. Our deepest condolences,”.

Yogi Adityanath received the news of his father’s death during a meeting on the COVID-19 crisis.A senior bureaucrat tweeted, “The news of his father breathing his last came to him in midst of the meeting. Unfazed by the news Yogi Adityanath stood up only after completing the meeting on COVID-19.”

Expressing grief over his father’s death, the Chief Minister said he would not be able to attend the last rites tomorrow due to the fight against coronavirus.

Several leaders including Union Minister Smriti Irani, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Akhilesh Yadav have condoled the death of Yogi Adityanth’s father.

Former UP chief minister and Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav also condoled the death.

“My deepest condolences on the death of Shri Anand Singh Bishtji, father of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. May God give courage to the family to suffer pain in this hour of grief. Soulful tribute,” Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tweeted.

State ministers including Satish Mahana, Siddhartha Nath Singh, Suresh Rana, Satish Dwivedi, Rajendra Pratap Singh, Brijesh Pathak also expressed their grief over the development.

The UP CM’s father was being treated at All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi. He was admitted to the hospital on March 15. Yogi’s father had complications in kidney and liver.