Mumbai| Singer Lata Mangeshkar died at a private hospital here on Sunday morning. He has also been awarded the Bharat Ratna Award. A spokesman for Breach Candy Hospital said he breathed his last at 8:12 am after 28 days in the hospital. She also got infected with Covid, as well as was suffering from pneumonia, where she was undergoing treatment for almost a month.
At the same time, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari shared the sad news that shocked the country.
Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s wife Rashmi Thackeray, Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar, Raut and other parties visited the hospital a while back to meet the Mangeshkar family and console them.
Gadkari also confirmed that he had ‘darshan’ of Lata-didi and remembered her great singing skills, her contribution to the world of music and nation. Several top leaders condoled his death.