Delhi Congress chief and former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit passed away on Saturday (July 20, 2019) due to heart attack in New Delhi. The 81-year-old Congress leader had been ailing for quite some time now.

Dikshit is best known as the longest serving chief minister of Delhi for three consecutive terms from 1998 to 2013 during which she transformed the national capital into a greener and better city. She had a long political career during which she handled several key assignments.

Graceful and dignified, she is credited with making Delhi a modern city, continuously upgrading the civic amenities to cater to an ever-increasing population of the city, largely due to migration from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and other states.