By TwoCircles.net News Desk,
New Delhi: Dr. Aisha Aizaz, popularly known as Sheema Rizvi, was both an active academician and politician. Her demise on August 19 in Lucknow, therefore, has sent shockwaves in the two circles – academic and political.
Sheema Rizvi, 47, was senior BJP leader in Uttar Pradesh and member of state Legislative Council. She was two-term Council member. She had also served as a minister in the state BJP government. Besides, she was serving as the Head of the Department of Urdu in the Lucknow University.
Rizvi, the daughter of former UP BJP minister Aizaz Rizvi, breathed her last on Wednesday at the Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI) in Lucknow where she was undergoing treatment after suffering brain hemorrhage on August 11 inside the Legislative Council. On last day of the monsoon session of the Council, as the House was about to adjourn sine die, Rizvi, a spinster, suffered brain hemorrhage. She turned unconscious and was noticed by Chairman Sukhram Singh. She was immediately rushed to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the SGPGI where she was operated upon by a team of neurosurgeons the same day. Though the doctors had successfully removed the blockade, her condition remained critical. After struggling for life in an unconscious state for eight days, Sheema Rizvi breathed her last on August 19.
Expressing grief over the demise of the BJP leader, Chief Minister Mayawati said Sheema Rizvi was a soft-spoken and hard working public representative whose loss was irreparable in the field of social service.
Governor BL Joshi also expressed grief over her demise and prayed for the peace of the departed soul. On behalf of him a wreath was laid on her mortal remains.
Before burial, her body was kept at BJP state office where party leaders and workers paid their last homage to the departed soul. At a condolence meeting held there party state president Ramapati Ram Tripathi said Rizvi was a committed, nationalist worker of the party who used to raise the issues related to common man in the House strongly.
BJP Legislative party leader in state Assembly, Om Prakash Singh and party MP from Lucknow Lalji Tandon also offered condolences.