Singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya gets legal notice for ‘Mahatma Gandhi father of Pakistan’ remark
Singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya has been surrounded with controveries and has yet again sparked outrage with his recent comment. In an interview, the singer discussed Mahatma Gandhi and called him the ‘Father of Pakistan’. He also claimed that Gandhi was ‘mistakenly’ called the ‘Father of India’ and he even tried to justify his comment by adding that he was responsible for Pakistan’s existence.
In an interview with Free Press Journal, the singer said, ‘Music composer RD Burman was bigger than Mahatma Gandhi. Like Mahatma Gandhi was the father of the nation, RD Burman was the father of the nation in the world of music’. He also added saying, ‘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 the nation for India. He was the one responsible for the existence of Pakistan’.
Within no time, Abhijeet‘s statement did not go down well with a Pune-based lawyer named Asim Sarode and he sent a legal notice to Bhattacharya asking him to apologize for his comment. The lawyer has demanded a written apology from the singer and threatened to initiate criminal prosecution against him.
The legal notice read, ‘To accept partition, it will be over my dead body. So long as I am alive, I will never agree to the partition of India’. The lawer stated that Gandhi worked tirelessly for Hindu-Muslim unity and also promoted the ideals of brotherhood.
Abhijeet Bhattacharya is known for his chartbuster songs like Biwi No. 1, Main Khiladi, Chunnari Chunnari, Baadshah O Baadshah, Dhoom TaanaJoru Ka Ghulam and more. He was in the news after Dua Lipa did not give him credit while performing Levitating x Woh Ladki Jo remix during her Mumbai show.
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