BJP Stalwart LK Advani To Be Conferred Bharat Ratna, Announces PM Modi - India Bytes

New Delhi: BJP veteran LK Advani will be conferred with Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Saturday.Taking to X (formerly Twitter), PM Modi wrote: “I am very happy to share that Shri LK Advani Ji will be conferred the Bharat Ratna. I also spoke to him and congratulated him on being conferred this honour.”

He further added, “One of the most respected statesmen of our times, his contribution to the development of India is monumental. His is a life that started from working at the grassroots to serving the nation as our Deputy Prime Minister. He distinguished himself as our Home Minister and I&B Minister as well. His Parliamentary interventions have always been exemplary, full of rich insights.”

The BJP leader had catapulted the party into national reckoning with his Rath Yatra for Ayodhya’s Ram Temple in the early 1990s.

Notably, Former Chief Minister of Bihar Karpoori Thakur was conferred Bharat Ratna, posthumously by President Droupadi Murmu on January 23. Dubbed “Jan Nayak” by many in the state, he served as the Chief Minister of Bihar for a short while — from December 1970 to June 1971 and from December 1977 to April 1979.