Rajasthani Bhajan Singer Ramzan Khan alias Munna Master awarded with Padma Shri

As soon as the Padma Shri award was announced to Munna Master of Jaipur, there was a wave of happiness in Bagru town. On the other hand, Munna Master is calling this announcement unimaginable.
Rajasthani Bhajan Singer Ramzan Khan alias Munna Master awarded with Padma Shri

As soon as the Padma Shri award was announced to Munna Master of Jaipur, there was a wave of happiness in Bagru town. On the other hand, Munna Master is calling this announcement unimaginable. He says that he never thought that he would get this honour. He has given the credit of this honour to 'Goseva'. When he got information about this honour, he was still doing cow service.

Munna Master's real name is Ramzan Khan

The real name of Munna Master is Ramzan Khan. This is the same Ramzan whose son Firoz was recently appointed as Assistant Professor of Sanskrit in the Banaras Hindu University, there was a lot of ruckuses. Munna Master has been selected for the Padma Shri Award in the Arts category.

Munna Master is famous for singing devotional songs and bhajans. He has been singing bhajans in many programs of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal. His father Gafoor Khan was a bhajan singer. That is, singing hymns has been inherited by them.

Munna Master started singing bhajans in temples to earn his living

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Image Credit: PTI

Ramzan Khan tells that when he was just seven years old, only then father Gafoor Khan die. Then he started living with his aunt, who taught him to sing bhajans. Later Munna Master started singing bhajans in temples to earn his living. As a result, he started moving away from the Muslim community.

Muslims had beaten up

Once when Ramzan Khan alias Munna Master got in touch with the sages and saints of Lake and got his sacrificial rites performed, after that the Muslims of the area beat him up. However, even after this incident, Munna Master did not stop singing in the temples. Later he also studied Sanskrit. Not only this, but he also taught Sanskrit to his children.

Ruckus over the appointment of younger son Firoz in BHU

Ramzan Khan's younger son Firoz did his PhD in Sanskrit and started teaching as a professor at Jaipur's Sanskrit College. Later he was appointed to Banaras Hindu University, about which there was a lot of controversies. After the controversy, Firoz returned to Jaipur disappointed. But later his department was changed and re-appointed. During that time people came to know about Ramzan Khan alias Munna Master.

Guru Champalal Chaudhary had given the knowledge of cow service

Remembering his Guru Champalal Chaudhary, Munna Master said, 'He had said that you should devote your life to cow service. Cow mother will give you everything. That is why I started a cowshed along with my friend Bhanwar Balai. Here we have also built a small temple, where I sing bhajans in the morning and evening.

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