KBC's new crorepati felicitated

Mumbai, Sep 28 (IANS) Babita Tade, who recently won Rs 1 crore cash prize in the current season of the quiz game show "Kaun Banega Crorepati", has been felicitated by Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray.Honouring Babita, Thackeray on Saturday presented her a bouquet of flowers and an idol of Lord Ganesh.Babita, who hails from Amravati, is a cook. She prepares meals for school kids under the mid-day meal programme, and generates a paltry monthly income of Rs 1,500.She is also a BA graduate and has now become the second crorepati of Sony TV's "Kaun Banega Crorepati season 11".The question that made Babita a crorepati was about Bahadur Shah Zafar. She was asked which poet in the court of Mughal ruler Bahadur Shah Zafar wrote the 'Dastan-e-Gadar', a personal account of the 1857 revolt.The options were Mir Taqi Mir, Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq, Zahir Dehlvi and Abu Al-Kasim Firdausi. She used her filnal lifeline -- expert's help -- to come up with the right answer and won a crore. The right answer is Zaheer Dehlvi.The first contestant to win Rs 1 crore was Sanoj Raj from Bihar.
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