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Adieu Lata Didi! Track legend cremated with state honours

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MUMBAI: Making a song legend Lata Mangeshkar, who enthralled thousands and thousands along with her divine voice for 8 many years, was once cremated with complete state honours in Mumbai on Sunday.

High Minister Narendra Modi was once a few of the luminaries from politics and leisure business provide at her funeral at Shivaji Park in Dadar house within the night.

Modi left the venue after providing her floral tributes.

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Floral tributes have been additionally paid to her at Shivaji Park on behalf of President Ram Nath Kovind.

Lata’s brother Hridaynath Mangeshkar lit the funeral pyre of the making a song legend, who died at 92 in a medical institution right here on Sunday morning after multi-organ failure.

Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, NCP leader Sharad Pawar, actors Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and MNS leader Raj Thackeray have been provide as Lata’s mortal stays have been consigned to flames in presence of other folks from all walks of lifestyles.

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Hridaynath Mangeshkar was once inconsolable as he carried out the remaining rites.

Modi laid a wreath and bowed in entrance of the mortal stays.

He additionally met the Mangeshkar members of the family and consoled them.

He left the venue earlier than the funeral.

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Simply earlier than the remaining rites, the nationwide tricolour during which the mortal stays have been draped, was once passed over to the members of the family.

The mortal stays of Lata Mangeshkar, draped within the nationwide flag, have been taken in a truck from her place of dwelling Prabhu Kunj in south Mumbai to Shivaji Park for the remaining rites.

Numerous other folks thronged the roads from the place the cortege handed because the melody queen launched into her ultimate adventure.