His suggestions come in the wake of the BJP in Maharashtra demanding that the Bharat Ratna be conferred on Hindutva ideologue Veer Savarkar, which triggered a row
In its manifesto for the Maharashtra state legislature elections, the BJP has promised to confer Bharat Ratna, the highest civil award, posthumously, on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
The BJP's manifesto for Maharashtra assembly elections said the party will ask the NDA government at the Centre to confer India's highest civilian award on Savarkar
Savarkar had faced criminal trial in the murder of Mahatma Gandhi, Tewari said, adding that he was later acquitted
There is much to learn from Bharat Ratna Pranab Mukherjee
Hazarika and Deshmukh were given the Bharat Ratna posthumously
Other Presidents who had been conferred the Bharat Ratna include Dr S Radhakrishnan, Rajendra Prasad, Zakir Hussain and V V Giri
Tej's criticism of Citizenship Amendment Bill was interpreted to mean he wouldn't accept the award his dad's behalf, now says he will be honoured to receive it
At the fag end of its tenure in 2014, the Congress-led UPA had conferred the Bharat Ratna on scientist C N R Rao and cricketer Sachin Tendulkar
The Bharat Ratna will be conferred after a gap of four years.
Deshmukh and Hazarika were conferred the award posthumously
Samajwadi Party MP Neeraj Shekhar today said Dhyan Chand deserved Bharat Ratna and demanded that the Centre should honour the hockey player. "Giving Bharat Ratna to Sachin is a welcome step but Dhyan Chand also deserves it. The Centre should award Bharat Ratna to him," Shekhar told reporters. Praising Dhyan Chand he said that the player promoted hockey at the international level and did India proud. Dhyan Chand helped India in winning gold medals in hockey in three successive Olympics games and led the gold medal winner Indian Hockey team in the historic 1936 Berlin Olympics. The hockey wizard was honoured with the Padma Bhushan in 1956.
Baru hailed the contributions of Rao as the PM who initiated the economic reforms