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CHARAN SINGH, NARASIMHA RAO, SWAMINATHAN GET BHARAT RATNA
The Daily Guardian
|February 10, 2024
Number of recipients of highest civilian award is 53; five of them were announced this year.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced that former PMs Chaudhary Charan Singh and PV Narasimha Rao will be conferred the Bharat Ratna. Along with them, MS Swaminathan also known as the father of the green revolution will also be awarded the country’s highest civilian award.
The decision to award Bharat Ratna to former prime ministers Rao and Singh and M S Swaminathan has taken the number of recipients of the country’s highest civilian award to 53, five of them within 2024, maximum in a year so far.
Till now, the maximum Bharat Ratna’s were awarded in 1999 when four recipients were given the coveted award.
Former prime ministers P V Narasimha Rao, whose liberalisation policies revolutionized the economy, and Charan Singh, a champion of farmers’ cause, and green revolution pioneer M S Swaminathan will be conferred Bharat Ratna, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Friday.
Singh, a Jat leader from western Uttar Pradesh, was one of the pioneers of anti-Congress politics at a time when the Congress was the hegemonic political force.
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