Padma Honour for Ram Vilas Paswan, son Chirag Paswan thanks PM Modi

Chirag Paswan expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday after former Union minister and his late far Ram Vilas Paswan was bestowed with Pma Bhushan award posthumously and was one of 10 Pma Bhushan awardees. 

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 Lok Janshakti Party president tweeted that PM Modi took care of his far till his last days and gave him respect even after he was gone.

Paswan has been a constant supporter of PM Modi despite party longer a part of BJP-led NDA in Bihar due to his differences with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, ar saffron party ally.

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Ram Vilas Paswan passed away last year

In October, last year, LJP founder Ram Vilas Paswan passed away at a hospital in New Delhi. Chirag Paswan h me this anuncement on Twitter. veteran political leer hailing from Bihar h been hospitalized and h undergone heart surgery on October 4, 2020. After resignation of Harsimrat Kaur Bal, Paswan was only remaining n-BJP Cabinet Minister. He was also a member of Rajya Sabha after winning election upposed on June 28, 2019. He h served as a Union Minister in National Front governments (1989-90 and 1996-98), Atal Bihar Vajpayee-led NDA government (1999-2002), UPA government (2004-2009), and Narendra Modi-led government (2014-2020). 

Prominent Pma awardees

In a very significant development, Japan's longest-serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who stepped down in 2020 due to health reasons features among 7 Pma Vibhushan awardees. Legendary singer SP Balasubrahmanyam and scientist Narinder Singh Kapany kwn as 'far of fibre optics' will be awarded Pma Vibhushan posthmously. India's second-highest civilian award shall also be conferred to rewned sculptor Sudarshan Sahoo, cardiologist Dr. Belle Monappa Hegde, Islamic spiritual scholar Maulana Wahiduddin Khan and archaelogist BB Lal. Lal h discovered that re is temple-like structure below Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. Meanwhile, a total of 10 persons shall be bestowed with Pma Bhushan.

prominent awardees of country's third-highest civilian award include veteran Congress leer and former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi who bread his last in 2020 after contracting COVID-19. Similarly, ex-Gujarat CM Keshubhai Patel and LJP founder Ram Vilas Paswan who too passed away last year are in this list. Interestingly, late Islamic scholar Maulana Kalbe Siq who served as senior vice-president of All India Muslim Personal Law Board has also been named as a recepient of Pma Bhushan. ditionally, former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, retired bureaucrat Nripendra Misra who functioned as Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi till 2019 and rewned singer KS Chithra will also receive Pma Bhushan. Meanwhile, Carnatic singer Bombay Jayashri, former Goa Goverr Mridula Sinha and social activist Sindhutai Sapkal are some of key Pma Shri awardees.

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(With PTI Inputs)