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The former chief minister of Bihar, Karpoori Thakur, will be awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously, the Rashtrapati Bhavan announced on Tuesday...
Thakur, popularly known as 'jannayak', served as chief minister from December 1970 to June 1971 and from December 1977 to April 1979...
He said, "Bharat Ratna on the beacon of social justice, the great Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur Ji and that too at a time when we are marking his birth centenary..
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