The announcement came days after Modi said former deputy prime minister Lal Krishna Advani and two-time Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur will get the award | Latest News India
Mandal, Mandir, Market, Millets & Mandi: Narendra Modi’s 5M Bharat Ratna Spree. Just ahead of Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a Bharat Ratna spree, awarding India’s highest civilian award to LK Advani, Karpoori Thakur, Chaudhary Charan Singh, Narasimha Rao and MS Swaminathan.
Charan Singh was Uttar Pradesh’s first non-Congress chief minister, and went on to become Prime Minister of India in 1979. Regarded as a ‘champion of peasants’, he is credited with creating a new political class encompassing farming communities in North India.
List of recipients of Bharat Ratna (1954-2024): Bharat Ratna- the highest civilian Award of India, was instituted in the year 1954. Bharat Ratna can be given to a maximum of 3 people in a year.
India News: NEW DELHI: The decision to award the Bharat Ratna to former Prime Ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh, as well as green revolution .