Surat based Hindi poet Albela Khatri no more

Surat, 8 April 2014

Albela Khatri, famous poet whose videos featuring poetry on Narendra Modi were very popular is no more. He died in a hospital in Surat in Gujarat after prolong illness related to lung failure. Albela was patriotic and nationalist poet who gave number of poetry devoted to our jawans, our country. When Kumar Vishwas started criticizing Narendra Modi due to political compulsion after joining AAm AAdmi Party, it was Albela Khatri who uploaded Vishwas’s old video praising Narendra Modi on his video channel on Youtube. Vishwas’s this video went viral later on. Though Khatri was from Rajasthan, his poetry ‘Hamara Gujarat’ was very popular. In fact he had named his several shows as ‘Hamara Gujarat’. In one video on youtube Narendra Modi is seen responding positively to his poetry ‘Hamara Gujarat’.

-Khatri was admitted in hospital due to lung related deases. He was in Intensive care unit for over a week.
-Khatri was full time poet and his economic condition was not so well. When cost of daily treatment touched Rs. 30,000, his wife Aartiben had asked public to help them.
-Albela Khatri was admitted in Surat’s Mahavir hospital.
-Hospital trust had extended financial help to him for his treatment.
-Famous singer Kumas Shanu’s relative Sunita Shanu and Mumbai based businessman had also extended help for his treatment.
-Khatri was 49. He was originally from Shri Ganganagar in Rajasthan.
-He sarted his career as a journalist at the age of 17. He worked as writer, poet, journalist, editor and TV serial writer.
-He lived in Mumbai for twenty years and finally made Surat as his karmabhoomi.
-He is survived by his wife Aartiben(45) and son(12 year old).