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The Central Government on Tuesday announced the Padma awards on the eve of Republic Day. This time four celebrities have been given the Padma Vibhushan award. Among them, there are 3 people who will be given this honor posthumously. The Padma Vibhushan recipients include CDS General Bipin Rawat, BJP leader Kalyan Singh, Geeta Press Gorakhpur president Radheshyam Khemka (all three posthumously) and classical singer Prabha Atre.
Along with this, Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Google’s parent company Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, West Bengal’s senior communist leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Bharat Biotech’s founder Krishna Ella-suchitra, who gave Corona vaccine to the country. Cyrus Poonawalla, head of Ella and Serum Institute of India (SII), has been announced to be honored with Padma Bhushan.
Along with this, Olympian Neeraj Chopra, singer Sonu Nigam, Pramod Bhagat and Vandana Kataria will be honored with Padma Shri. This time it has been announced to give Padma Bhushan to 17 people and Padma Shri award to 107 people. In this way, a total of 128 people are being given the Padma Award.
Neeraj Chopra gets two big awards in one day
Olympian Neeraj Chopra, who received two big awards on the same day, has said that I will continue to work hard and try to do well for the country. Neeraj will be awarded the Param Vishisht Seva Medal and Padma Shri. He is currently training in the US.
Refusal to accept the honor of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has refused to accept the Padma award. Told him that I do not know anything about the Padma Bhushan award being given. Nobody told me anything about it. If they have given me the Padma Bhushan award. I am rejecting it.
At the same time, government sources say that on Tuesday morning, a senior official of the Center had told about the government’s decision to honor his family. His wife had spoken to the officer.
These 4 celebrities got Padma Vibhushan
- Prabha Atre: Art
- Radheshyam Khemka: Literature and Education
- General Bipin Rawat: Civil Service
- Kalyan Singh: Public Affairs
Padma Bhushan to 17 celebrities
- Ghulam Nabi Azad: Public Affairs
- Victor Banerjee: Art
- Gurmeet Bawa (Posthumous) : Art
- Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee: Public Affairs
- Natarajan Chandrasekaran: Trade and Industry
- Krishna Ella and Suchitra Ella: Trade and Industry
- Madhur Jaffrey: Cooking
- Devendra Jhajharia: Sports
- Rashid Khan: Art
- Rajiv Mehrishi: Civil Service
- Satya Nadella: Trade and Industry
- Sundar Pichai: Trade and Industry
- Cyrus Poonawalla: Trade and Industry
- Sanjay Rajaram (Posthumous): Science and Engineering
- Pratibha Ray: Literature and Education
- Swami Sachidananda: Literature and Education
- Vashisht Tripathi: Literature and Education
Padma Shri to 107 celebrities
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