Page 5 - Bharat Ratna
Pranab Mukherjee, Nanaji Deshmukh, Hazarika will be conferred Bharat Ratna
The Bharat Ratna will be conferred after a gap of four years.
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Pranab Mukherjee, Nanaji Deshmukh, Bhupen Hazarika awarded Bharat Ratna
Deshmukh and Hazarika were conferred the award posthumously
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SP leader advocates Bharat Ratna for Dhayan Chand
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.
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Sanjaya Baru favours Bharat Ratna for P V Narasimha Rao
Baru hailed the contributions of Rao as the PM who initiated the economic reforms
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