Hours after the Union Government conferred Bharat Ratna on former Prime Ministers Chaudhary Charan Singh, PV Narasimha Rao and agricultural scientist MS Swaminathan, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Friday demanded the nation’s prime civilian honour for occasion founder and Dalit chief Kanshi Ram.
In a sequence of posts on ‘X’, Mayawati welcomed the Bharat Ratna for Singh, Rao and Swaminathan, but additionally blamed the central authorities for “ignoring” Dalit personalities for the award. “All the personalities who have been honoured with Bharat Ratna by the present BJP government are welcome, but it is not at all appropriate to disrespect and ignore Dalit personalities, especially in this matter. The government should definitely pay attention to this also,” learn the tough translation of her put up in Hindi.
She additionally equated the contribution of Kanshi Ram and BR Ambedkar for the social and financial uplift of the underprivileged. “After a long wait, Baba Saheb Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar was honoured with the Bharat Ratna by the government of VP Singh. After that, the struggle by respected Shri Kanshiram ji, the messiah of the Dalits and the neglected, in their interests is no less. He should also be honoured with the Bharat Ratna,” Mayawati wrote in one other put up.
Bharat Ratna in 2024
The determination to award Bharat Ratna to former Prime Ministers PV Narasimha Rao and Charan Singh and inexperienced revolution pioneer MS Swaminathan has taken the variety of recipients of the nation’s highest civilian award to 53, 5 of them inside 2024, most in a 12 months to this point. Till now, the utmost variety of Bharat Ratna have been awarded in 1999 when 4 recipients got the coveted award.
Former prime ministers PV Narasimha Rao, whose liberalisation insurance policies revolutionised the financial system, and Charan Singh, a champion of farmers’ trigger, and inexperienced revolution pioneer MS Swaminathan can be conferred Bharat Ratna, Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced on Friday.
Singh, a Jat chief from western Uttar Pradesh, was one of many pioneers of anti-Congress politics at a time when the Congress was the hegemonic political power. Rao, a Telugu, is broadly recognised for ushering in financial reforms.
