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President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday conferred the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, upon Bharatiya Janata Party veteran Lal Krishna Advani at the latter's residence in Delhi..
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar and former vice president M Venkaiah Naidu were also present at the residence of LK Advani on the occasion.I)..
On Saturday, President Murmu conferred Bharat Ratna on four eminent personalities, including two former prime ministers, Chaudhary Charan Singh and PV Narasimha Rao..
N Sharada Devi said, I thank the Indian government and PM Narendra Modi for giving the Bharat Ratna to my father PV Narasimha Rao from the hands of President of India..
He fought his last election in 2014 from the same seat.Advani catapulted the BJP into national reckoning with his Rath Yatra for Ayodhyas Ram Temple in the early 1990s.Advani, who was considered to represent the hardline ideological faction of the BJP, had to resign when his name came up in connection with the Hawala diaries.Although he was committed to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideology, Ada earned the wrath of the Sangh Parivar during his visit to Pakistan in 2005, where he praised Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan..
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