BHARAT RATNA
BHARAT
RATNA
Freedom fighter, late Pandit Mohan Malaviya and former Prime Minister,
Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee have joined the prestigious club of 43 eminent
personalities after the Prime Minister Office announced to honour them with
India’s highest civilian order – Bharat Ratna – for their service to the
nation. The announcement from
Rashtrapati Bhavan was made ahead of Mr.Vajpayee’s 90th birthday on
December 25, 2014, and the 153rd birth anniversary of Pt.Malaviya.
Pandit M.M. Malaviya (1861-1946) a barrister by profession, played a
significant role in India’s independence and for the cause of education. He was four-time President of Indian National
Congress, before Independence. He was
respectfully addressed as Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya and also called as
‘Mahamana’. He established the renowned
Banaras Hindu University in collaboration with Annie Besant in 1915 and
launched the Hindi edition of Hindustan Times.
He also founded a highly influential English newspaper. The leader published from Allahabad in
1909. He fought against social barriers,
mobilised the Dalits to demand entry into temples and led the Hindu
Mahasabha. He also fought in Swadeshi
`Boy India’ Movement.
Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(b..1924), a statesman, orator and poet of the highest order, is a veteran
politician who is respected and revered across the party-lines for his humility
and austerity. He is considered one of
the most outstanding politicians post-Independence. A leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),
he is the first Prime Minister from outside the Indian National Congress party
to serve a full five-year term successfully.
Even his successor, Dr. Manmohan Singh called him the ‘Bhishma Pitamah
of Indian politics’. A parliamentarian
for over four decades, he is credited with launching the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
and making India into a nuclear power.
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