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Abhijeet Bhattacharya gives controversial remark on Mahatma Gandhi

23-12-2024 12:02:22 AM

Playback singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya, who once was the voice of Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan in film music, is back to doing what he does best: stirring up controversies. This time, the singer is on the radar for his comments on Mahatma Gandhi, who is known as one of the founding fathers of independent India. The singer told Shubhankar Mishra on his podcast, “Music composer R. D. Burman was bigger than Mahatma Gandhi. Like Mahatma Gandhi was the father of the nation, R. D. Burman was the father of the nation in the world of music”. If this wasn’t enough, the singer went on to launch a more scathing attack on Gandhi as he called him the father of nation for Pakistan. “Mahatma Gandhi was the father of the nation for Pakistan and not India. India already existed, Pakistan was carved out of India later. Gandhi has been mistakenly called the father of nation for India. He was the one responsible behind the existence of Pakistan”, he added.