And the clamour for Bharat Ratna grows…

And the clamour for Bharat Ratna grows…

FPJ BureauUpdated: Saturday, June 01, 2019, 09:43 AM IST
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CALL to honour Dhyan Chand and Bhagat Singh

New Delhi : Amid speculation that Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose may be named for Bharat Ratna, the Congress on Sunday demanded that Dhyan Chand, Bhagat Singh and BSP founder Kanshi Ram be also considered for the country’s highest civilian award.

The opposition said that more eminent personalities should figure in the Bharat Ratna list if government was going by the ‘historical route’. Congress leader Manish Tewari wanted names of legendary freedom fighters including Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Lala Lajpat Rai be also considered. “If government going the historical route on Bharat Ratnas it should also consider the names of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukdev, Lala Lajpat Rai…,” he said on Twitter.

Tewari also suggested names of founders of the INA Rash Behari Bose, Gen Mohan Singh, Annie Besant & AO Hume and Gopal Krishna Gokhale in his tweet.

The former Union Minister also recalled litigations in early 1990s over conferring the highest civilian award. Another Congress leader Rashid Alvi said besides Bose, Kanshi Ram, who was BSP founder, and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) founder Sir Syed Ahmed Khan should get the honour.

He, however, said the award should be announced only after the upcoming Assembly elections in four states, including Maharashtra and Haryana, to avoid any politics. Alvi told PTI he was writing a letter on the issue to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Former Allahabad High Court judge Justice Giridhar Malaviya, the grand-son of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, while reacting to reports that the name of Banaras Hindu University founder is also doing the rounds said he was one person who had made contribution in ‘so many fields’.

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