Mumbai: Narendra Modi today said India is perhaps the only country without a war memorial dedicated to its martyrs, and said he will create one if elected to power in the forthcoming general elections, due by May.
"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..."
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." Mr Modi even sang a few lines from the song at the end of his speech.
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.
"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..."
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." Mr Modi even sang a few lines from the song at the end of his speech.
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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