Wife of former diplomat and Rahul Gandhi’s aunt passes away at 108

Tribune News Service

Solan, April 25

Shobha Nehru, wife of former Indian envoy to the US BK Nehru and aunt of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, passed away at her Kasauli residence on Tuesday morning. She was 108.

She was married to India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s cousin BK Nehru, an Indian diplomat who nearly succeeded Dag Hammarskjold as United Nations Secretary General.

BK Nehru was also a former president of The Tribune Trust.

Rahul Gandh regularly headed to the picturesque hill station of Kasauli in Himachal Pradesh to meet his aunt.

Born in Budapest in Hungary, Shobha Nehru married into the Nehru family in 1935 after she met BK Nehru at Oxford University as a student.

BK Nehru, one of India’s most distinguished civil servants of post-independent India and former trustee of The Tribune Trust of Publications, died on October 31, 2001 at the age of 92. — With IANS inputs