New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday conferred Bharat Ratna, the nation’s highest civilian honour, on Bharatiya Janata Party stalwart and former deputy prime minister L Okay Advani at his residence right here.
The ceremony was attended by Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah and the members of the family of Advani, the Rashtrapati Bhavan mentioned in a put up on X.
President Murmu offered the Bharat Ratna to Advani at his residence, it mentioned. Advani, a doyen of Indian politics, has served the nation with unwavering dedication and distinction for over seven a long time, the Rashtrapati Bhavan mentioned.
Born in Karachi in 1927, he migrated to India in 1947 in opposition to the backdrop of partition. With his imaginative and prescient of cultural nationalism, he toiled onerous for many years, throughout the size and breadth of the nation, and led to a metamorphosis within the socio-political panorama, the Rashtrapati Bhavan mentioned.
“When the Emergency put India’s democracy at risk, the indefatigable crusader in him helped guard it against authoritarian tendencies,” it mentioned within the put up on X and shared photos of the ceremony.
Advani (96) served because the deputy prime minister from June 2002 to May 2004 and because the Union Home Minister from October 1999 to May 2004. He had been BJP president a number of instances — from 1986 to 1990, 1993 to 1998 and 2004 to 2005.
