‘The Nightingale of India,’ Lata Mangeshkar breathed her last on Sunday at Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai. The legendary singer was 92 years and succumbed to death due to Covid-19 complications. Reportedly, she was undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital. Lately, she was suffering from pneumonia and had a multi-organ failure.
The demise of the singer came as a shock to the nation as well as abroad. People from all fraternities are collectively mourning the major loss, India has suffered. The Bharat Ratna awardee gave voice to over 25,000 songs and in 36 languages apart from Hindi and Urdu.
However, a section of liberals has taken this opportunity to criticize and abuse the national icon and celebrate the death. The accused have taken to social media to put a bad label on the reputation of the singer. What made her face all these was her association with Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
While India is mourning her death, liberals without showing any sympathy or respect is calling her ‘Sanghi.’ Lata Mangeshkar’s association with the nationalist icons and RSS became a rallying point for the left-liberals, who choose this time as the best to accuse the deceased.
Manveer Singh, a liberal social media user took to Twitter stating that before posting ‘RIP Lata Mangeshkar,’ one should note that she was a supporter of RSS, which according to him, is a fascist hate group that got inspired by Nazism.
Before posting your “RIP Lata Mangeshkar” posts, note that she ardently supported the RSS – a fascist hate group that took inspiration from Nazism & is the main culprit behind the oppression of minorities in India today. Yes, she had a beautiful voice but she supported fascism. https://t.co/wUMJl39OHG pic.twitter.com/PaQEsNUUmp
— Manveer Singh (@manveerssihota) February 6, 2022
Such bitter instance was also experienced, when Shivangi, a left-liberal columnist writing for news portals like FirstPost and Newsclick, claimed that Lata Mangeshkar all her life was a Sanghi and that her voice was equivalent to a pressure cooker whistle.
Here are some other reactions from the liberals:
Lata was a life long supporter of fascist RSS and had a close family tie with Savarkar .. just thought today would be a good day for this trivia!
— Abz (@AbzzLive) February 6, 2022
Unpopular opinion: #LataMangeshkar single-handedly suppressed innovation in the Indian music industry by viciously denying independent artistes space in the film industry.
It was only when she grew old and was unable to sing that diversity returned to the Indian music scene!
— Tanjiro Tan (@TanjiroTan) February 6, 2022
Danish siddique died and not even a word was spoken!
Okay leave this! Let’s pick few from bollywood itself,
Irfan khan, Dilip Kumar, rishi Kapoor!
Any special honour?
Ye zyada ho Gaya!! https://t.co/ux1W46L3Qc— aditi (@SilverMagicChip) February 6, 2022
Besides, many Islamists expressed joy and used laughing emojis on the news of the singer’s demise.
Just because Lata ji was a Nationalist and close to PM Modi ji pic.twitter.com/PAJckglo21
— Naweed (@Spoof_Junkey) February 6, 2022
Here are a few reactions on TOI.
Many on Facebook don’t know to use ‘Emoji reactions’. But you please continue with your propaganda… pic.twitter.com/pj2qiOygmb— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) February 6, 2022
