Bharat Ratna to LK Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee, as well as Karpoori Thakur and Pranab Mukherjee; Padma Vibhushan to Mulayam Singh and Sharad Pawar, as well as Kalyan Singh, Murli Manohar Joshi and Tarun Gogoi; Padma Bhushan to Buddhadeb Bhattacharya of the Left, but politely refuse to accept.
It’s one of the hallmarks of Narendra Modi’s government, which since 2015 has blurred political lines when it comes to conferring the country’s highest civilian honors on those who have excelled in “public service.” Merit has replaced petty politics and the Modi government is not shy about recognizing its opponents and entering areas where the Congress party has chosen not to be afraid.
This is reflected in the choice of politicians, including those opposed to the BJP and especially the Narendra Modi government – from the Congress, Samajwadi Party and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) ), socialists and even left-wingers were chosen as these. Awards received in the past nine years.
In the past two weeks, the government has announced that Karpoori Thakur, a firebrand of socialism, and LK Advani, a proponent of 1990s Hindutva politics, have announced Bharat Ratna. Ratna) and thus came into contact with the Mandal and Kamandal schools of political thought. Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad have been demanding Bharat Ratna to replace Thakur since 2007, but Congress did not choose him Acknowledge him.
In 2023, the government announced the posthumous Padma Vibhushan award to Mulayam Singh and a year ago, the government had conferred the same award on Kalyan Singh after his death. Yadav and Singh were on opposite sides of the political spectrum in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, with Yadav as chief minister ordering the shooting of Kal Sevaks in Ayodhya in 1990 and the Babri Masjid in 1992 It was dismantled under the rule of Kalyan Singh as Chief Minister.
Yadav and Singh were never awarded any Padma Award by the previous government in their lifetime.
In a major surprise, the Padma Shri was announced for Sharad Pawar in 2017 and for Congress leader Tarun Gogoi in 2021. These leaders are all staunchly anti-BJP leaders. Congress never awarded Pawar any Padma award.
The Padma Bhushan awarded to senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad in 2022 and the Bala awarded to Pranab Mukherjee in 2019 The Bharat Ratna Medal also surprised the Congress. They are both senior leaders of the Congress party, in stark contrast to the Modi government’s approach, as the Gandhis skipped award ceremonies in both cases.
Tall regional leaders such as Prakash Singh Badal, Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and Ram Vilas Paswan were also awarded the highest Padma Award by this government. Muzaffar Hussain Baig of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was awarded the Padma Shri in 2020, even as the BJP and the PDP earlier painfully broke away from the J&K alliance.
In doing so, the Modi government has not forgotten to bestow this honor on the shining stars — like the Padma Vibhushan Medal to George Fernandez, Murli Manohar Joshi , Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and M. Venkaiah Naidu.
From Mandal to Kamandal, from Congress to the Left, the Modi government has truly prioritized the Bharat Ratna and Padma Awards over politics.
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