Md Sharif will receive Padma Shri for performing last rites of 25,000 unclaimed bodies
News | January 26, 2020 17:10 ISTMohammad Sharif from Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya has been nominated for the Padma Shri Award for social work.
Mohammad Sharif from Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya has been nominated for the Padma Shri Award for social work.
The 36-year-old Mary Kom, however, said her immediate target is to first qualify for the Olympics and then she would think about the "colour of the medal".
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said that those opposing Bharat Ratna award for Hindutva ideologue V.D. Savarkar should be made to spend two days in the Andaman Cellular Jail, the erstwhile colonial prison, where the freedom fighter had been lodged duri
'Send those against Savarkar's Bharat Ratna to Andaman Jail': Sanjay raut
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to issue any directive to the Centre on a PIL seeking to confer the Bharat Ratna on Mahatma Gandhi. Chief Justice S.A. Bobde observed that Gandhi is the 'Father of the Nation', and the people hold him in high esteem, which is far beyond any formal recognition.
"Most likely the announcement of conferring Bharat Ratna to Veer Savarkar and Syama Prasad Mookerjee will be made on the upcoming Republic Day", the national president of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha Swami Chakrapani Maharaj told IANS on Monday.
"It would be in the fitness of things that if on January 26, 2020, all three of them are honoured with the Bharat Ratna," read the letter.
The BJP, popularly known as the saffron party, had always been vocal about nationalist ideology and has praised the valour of freedom fighters and social reformers. The party has recently stirred a controversy after it proposed Veer Savarkar's name for Bharat Ratna.
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