Bharat Ratna for Cariappa, Thimayya: Rashtrapati Bhavan sends letter to PMO
Congress MLC Veena Achaiah’s letter to the President Ram Nath Kovind seeking the country‘s highest civilian award Bharat Ratna for Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa and General K.S. Thimayya has been forwarded to Prime Minister’s Office.
The Rashtrapathi Bhavan has acknowledged the receipt of Ms. Achaiah’s letter dated February 6, 2021, addressed to the President regarding conferment of Bharat Ratna posthumously to both Field Marshal Cariappa and General Thimayya. On March 2, 2021, the Officer on Special Duty, President’s Secretariat, Jagannath Srinivasan wrote to Ms. Achaiah, seeking to bring to her notice that the letter she had sent to the President had been forwarded to the Prime Minister’s Office for appropriate action.
President Ram Nath Kovind dedicates to nation Sunny Side General Thimayya Memorial Museum
Madikeri, Karnataka, Feb 6 (UNI) ‘Sunny Side’, the residence of General Kodandera S Thimayya that has been converted into General Thimayya Memorial Museum, was dedicated to the nation by President Ram Nath Kovind here on Saturday.
President spent some time in the museum and watched the monuments which were on display.
The first President couple was taken around the museum in a buggy vehicle. And he laid the wreath at the Amar Jawan War memorial. Personnel from the Madras Regiment offered 21 gun salutes to the President.
The President spent nearly 45 minutes before leaving for Bengaluru.
President Ram Nath Kovind to open General Thimayya Memorial Museum in Madikeri on Feb. 6
Madikeri: ‘Sunny Side’, the residence of General Kodandera S. Thimayya that has been converted into
General Thimayya Memorial Museum, will be dedicated to the nation by President Ram Nath Kovind on Feb. 6 at 3.45 pm. The museum is located on G.T. Road and the building earlier housed the office of RTO that has been shifted now.
The works on the museum was delayed as there was shortage of funds and a lack of concrete plan to convert the house of the celebrated General from Kodagu into a museum though the Government had in 2006 announced the museum plans.
Celebrations and Introspections
In the Summer of 1942, then recently promoted to ‘Lt Col’ KM Cariappa, raised and commanded an Infantry battalion (7th Rajput Machine Gun battalion, later 17th Rajput Regiment), as the first Indian officer to do so – the first of many ‘firsts’ to the name of the legend, Field Marshal KM Cariappa, OBE.
Army Day (15th Jan) commemorates the taking over of the first Indian as the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army. An unprecedented backdrop surrounded the event with an unusual refusal to accept the leadership post by another Rajput Regiment officer, Lt Gen Nathu Singh, who insisted on