Lata Mangeshkar To Donate Rs. 1 Crore To The Indian Army

More than 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel attained martyrdom on February 14 in a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden Scorpio into a CRPF convoy killing over 40 CRPF jawans and gravely injuring several others

The country has come together to help the kin of the martyred soldiers and many Bollywood celebs too have donated towards the cause, Amitabh Bachchan has declared to donate Rs. 5 lakh each to the families of the martyred CRPF soldiers and now, Lata Mangeshkar has opened her coffers, to help the families of our soldiers.

The Nightingale Of India will be making a donation of Rs. 1 Crore to the Indian Army on the occasion of her father, Deenanath Mangeshkar’s death anniversary, which falls on April 2. Lata Mangeshkar had condemned the Pulwama terrorist attack on Twitter and had also offered condolences to the families of the soldiers, who lost their lives in the dastardly attack.

The songstress also saluted the valour of the Indian Air Force as twelve Mirage 2000 fighter jets struck joint training camps of Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar across LOC and killed about 300 militants by shelling over 1000 kg bombs, on Tuesday, as a retaliation to the dastardly terrorist attack on the CRPF convoy.