New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday conferred Bharat Ratna, the nation’s highest civilian honour, on Bharatiya Janata Celebration stalwart and former deputy prime minister L Ok Advani at his residence right here.
The ceremony was attended by Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Residence Minister Amit Shah and the members of the family of Advani, the Rashtrapati Bhavan mentioned in a submit 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. Together with his imaginative and prescient of cultural nationalism, he toiled exhausting 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 in danger, the indefatigable crusader in him helped guard it in opposition to authoritarian tendencies,” it mentioned within the submit on X and shared footage of the ceremony.
Advani (96) served because the deputy prime minister from June 2002 to Might 2004 and because the Union Residence Minister from October 1999 to Might 2004. He had been BJP president a number of instances — from 1986 to 1990, 1993 to 1998 and 2004 to 2005.
