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List of Bharat Ratna Awards: The Government of India has announced Bharat Ratna to a total of 5 personalities this year, including two former Prime Ministers. Let us know how many peope have been awarded Bharat Ratna so far.
Bharat Ratna is the country's highest civilian award. This time, the Narendra Modi-led government has announced to give Bharat Ratna to former Bihar Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur, LK Advani, Narasimha Rao, MS Swaminathan and Chaudhary Charan Singh.
So far, 53 people have been honoured
So far, 53 personalities have been honoured with this highest honour, which started about 68 years ago. It was first awarded in 1954 to the first Governor-General of independent India, Chakravarti Raj Gopalachari, scientist Chandrasekhara Venkataraman and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
Jannayak Karpoori Thakur, L. K. Advani, Chaudhary Charan Singh, P. V. Narasimha Rao and M. S. Swaminathan are among the 53 people who have been awarded the Bharat Ratna so far. However, now Bahujan Samajwadi Party chief Mayawati has demanded Bharat Ratna to Kashiram as well. At the same time, Raj Thackeray has also demanded to give Balasaheb Thackeray with respect. In such a situation, know which celebrities have been given Bharat Ratna.
Year |
People, Who Got Bharat Ratna |
1954 |
C. Rajagopalachari |
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
|
C. V. Raman |
|
1955 |
Bhagvan Das |
Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya |
|
Jawaharlal Nehru |
|
1957 |
Govind Ballabh Pant |
1958 |
Dhondo Keshav Karve |
1961 |
Bidhan Chandra Roy |
Purushottam Das Tandon |
|
1962 |
Rajendra Prasad |
1963 |
Zakir Hussain |
Pandurang Vaman Kane |
|
1966 |
Lal Bahadur Shastri |
1971 |
Indira Gandhi |
1975 |
V.V. Giri |
1976 |
K. Kamaraj |
1980 |
Mother Teresa |
1983 |
Vinoba Bhave |
1987 |
Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
1988 |
M.G. Ramachandran |
1990 |
B.R. Ambedkar |
Nelson Mandela |
|
1991 |
Rajiv Gandhi |
Morarji Desai |
|
Vallabhbhai Patel |
|
1992 |
Abul Kalam Azad |
Satyajit Ray |
|
JRD Tata |
|
1997 |
Gulzarilal Nanda |
A P J Abdul Kalam |
|
Aruna Asaf Ali |
|
1998 |
M.S. Subbulakshmi |
Chidambaram Subramaniam |
|
1999 |
Jayaprakash Narayan |
Amartya Sen |
|
Gopinath Bordoloi |
|
Ravi Shankar |
|
2001 |
Lata Mangeshkar |
bismillah khan |
|
2009 |
Bhimsen Joshi |
2014 |
CNR Rao |
Sachin Tendulkar |
|
2015 |
Madan Mohan Malviya |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
|
2019 |
Pranab Mukherjee |
Nanaji Deshmukh |
|
Bhupen Hazarika |
|
2024 |
Karpoori Thakur |
2024 |
Lal Krishna Advani |
2024 |
P.V. Narasimha Rao |
2024 |
Chaudhary Charan Singh |
2024 |
M.S. Swaminathan |
In the nearly 10 years of the Modi government, 10 personalities have been given the highest honor so far, in which five names, including Karpoori Thakur, have been announced this year. Before Pranab Mukherjee, Bhupen Hazarika and Nanaji Deshmukh, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya were given this highest honour in 2015 during the first term of the Modi government. Four years later, a few months after the last Lok Sabha elections, three personalities were announced to be given the highest honor.
2024 |
Karpoori Thakur |
2024 |
Lal Krishna Advani |
2024 |
P.V. Narasimha Rao |
2024 |
Chaudhary Charan Singh |
2024 |
M.S. Swaminathan |
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