Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday met with the family of former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, who was among the 241 passengers who lost their lives in the Ahmedabad plane crash.

Paying tributes to the BJP leader, Modi said the former CM was a humble and hardworking person and firmly committed to party's ideology. "Met the family of Vijaybhai Rupani Ji. It is unimaginable that Vijaybhai is not in our midst. I've known him for decades. We worked together, shoulder to shoulder, including during some of the most challenging times. Vijaybhai was humble and hardworking, firmly committed to the party's ideology," Modi wrote in a post on X.

"Rising up the ranks, he held various responsibilities in the organisation and went on to serve diligently as Gujarat's Chief Minister," he added.

Modi further praised the former Gujarat CM's contribution in various posts that he held over the years. "In every role assigned, he distinguished himself, be it in the Rajkot Municipal Corporation, as Rajya Sabha MP, as Gujarat BJP President and as Cabinet Minister in the state government," the PM said.