India, June 24 -- Rahul Narwekar, speaker of the legislative assembly, emerged red-faced after reading out a condolence message on the death of veteran singer Asha Bhosale on Tuesday. In his speech in Marathi, Narwekar, a BJP MLA, referred to Bhosale's father as "Deendayal Mangeshkar" instead of "Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar", seemingly mixing up his name with that of Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader Deendayal Upadhyaya.

MNS chief Raj Thackeray was quick to react on social media: ".the manner in which Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar butchered the Marathi language, and the fact that he could not even properly read Marathi written on paper in front of him, filled me with both anger and anguish. Had he eaten bhel from that...