Today, President Draupadi Murmu honored Lal Krishna Advani with the Bharat Ratna at his residence in New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other dignitaries attended. Earlier, former Prime Ministers P.V. Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh, agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan, and two-time Chief Minister of Bihar Karpoori Thakur were posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Rao’s son, P.V. Prabhakar Rao, accepted the honor on his behalf.
This year, the government announced to confer the Bharat Ratna upon veteran BJP leader and former Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani.
Highly proficient in multiple languages, a statesman, and scholar, P.V. Narasimha Rao is revered as the architect of Indian politics. During his tenure as Prime Minister, he initiated significant economic reforms to rescue the country from an economic abyss, serving from 1991 to 1996. He was the first Prime Minister from a southern state and the first non-Nehru-Gandhi family member to complete a five-year term as Prime Minister. He steered India through an economic whirlpool in the early 1990s.
A trusted figure outside the Nehru-Gandhi family, Rao held key non-economic positions in the central government during the 1980s, including the Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Defence, and Ministry of Home Affairs. He passed away on December 23, 2004, at the age of 83.
For more updates follow our Whatsapp 
and Telegram Channel 
