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The entire nation continues to reel with the sad demise of India’s legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar. After battling against COVID and Pneumonia, the Nightingale of India breathed her last, yesterday, i.e., Feb 6. She was 92. As we are yet to come to terms with the ultimate loss, unknown facts and never-heard-before stories about the late singer are surfacing on the web. One of which is about her helping the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 1983. Apart from being a great singer, Lata Mangeshkar was an enthusiastic cricket lover.
Let us take you down memory lane and tell you a story when the Bharat Ratan Awardee helped BCCI raise Rs 20 lakh for a very exciting cause. Not many know, after winning the World Cup against mighty West Indies in 1983, on June 25 at Lord’s, BCCI, which is now the richest board in the world, didn’t have enough funds to felicitate or honour Team India for their efforts. In ’83, NKP Salve was the president of the board and to figure out funds, he turned towards Raj Singh Dungarpur for help, who then asked singer and cricket love Lataji for the helping hand.
Revealing in Dungarpur’s biography, Union minister NKP Salve, stated, “Raj Singh came up with a brilliant idea of requesting Lata Mangeshkar to do a musical programme in Delhi to raise money for the purpose, as the BCCI was not flush with funds in those days.”
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