BJP patriarch and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Benaras Hindu University founder Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya are conferred with the prestigious Bharat Ratna Award. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hold a detailed discussion with BJP top brass including Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah before finalising the names.
Soon after the finalisation of names, Modi has sent a recommendation to President Pranab Mukherjee in this regard to which the latter approved the recommendation. With this Vajpayee and Madan Mohan Malaviya (posthumously) going to receive the India’s highest civilian award. The announcement of honouring Vajpayee has come on the eve of the veteran politician’s 90th birthday which falls on December 25, Christmas Day.
Narendra Modi is a staunch follower and admirer of AB Vajpayee and expressed the same several times publicly. Modi has shown his “Guru” Bhakti by conferring Bharat Ratna to Vajpayee. With this jubilations are all over the place in BJP offices.
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