Mumbai: Narendra Modi today said India is the only country without a war memorial dedicated to its martyrs, and said he would like to cr...
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Mumbai: Narendra Modi today said India is the only country without a war memorial dedicated to its martyrs, and said he would like to create one if given an opportunity.
"Some good deeds are perhaps my destiny only," the BJP's prime ministerial hopeful said at a ceremony in Mumbai to mark 51 years of Lata Mangeshkar's iconic song, "Ae mere watan ke logon..."
"This is the call of people from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and the voice of the people is like the voice of God," Mr Modi said.
Addressing an audience primarily from the armed forces at Mumbai's Mahalaxmi Race Course, the 63-year-old leader said, "The words and melody of this song has a place in the hearts and minds of millions of Indians." Flanked by Ms Mangeshkar, Mr Modi even broke into the song with the other attendees at the event.
Ms Mangeshkar, christened 'the Nightingale of India' by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, first sang the song, composed by C Ramchandra and written by Kavi Pradeep, on January 27, 1963, in honour of the men who lost their lives fighting for India in the war with China.
The 84-year-old singer, who had earlier denied the event had a political tenor, said, "I thank the organisers that I got an opportunity to meet Narendra bhai."
Ms Mangeshkar is known for her fondness for the Gujarat Chief Minister, who was also a special guest in November last year at the inauguration of a hospital in Pune in memory of the singer's father.
"Everyone in India wants to see Narendra Modi as prime minister," Ms Mangeskhar had said at the Pune event, generating a political controversy.
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