Mumbai, Apr 24: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred with the 1st ‘Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award’ at a glittering function in Shanmukhananda Hall, here on Sunday evening.
As per his own request, Pm Modi walked onto the stage to accept the honour as a commoner, with the announcement.
Presented on the occasion Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and Minister Subhash Desai, though Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray kept away reportedly as his name did not figure in the official invite and the entire Mangeshkar clan.
This is the first award instituted in memory of the late Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar, the melody queen of India, who passed away in Mumbai on February 6, at the age of 92.
