Updated On: 05 January, 2025 08:44 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Abhijeet Bhattacharya said on a podcast, “Mahatma Gandhi was the father of the nation for Pakistan and not India. India already existed, Pakistan was carved out of India later"

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Playback singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya, who once was the voice of Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan in film music, is back to doing what he does best: courting controversies. After making headlines over being snubbed after Dua Lipa’s India concert, Abhijeet is on the radar for his comments on Mahatma Gandhi which has landed him in a legal soup.
Abhijeet Bhattacharya told Shubhankar Mishra on his podcast, “Music composer R. D. Burman was bigger than Mahatma Gandhi. Like Mahatma Gandhi was the father of the nation, R. D. Burman was the father of the nation in the world of music”.