Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared on Friday that the late P V Narasimha Rao, a seasoned Congress leader and former prime minister, will receive the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna. Speaking on X, Prime Minister Modi said that Narasimha Rao was a renowned ...
India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM), on Tuesday, boycotted the proceedings of the Telangana Assembly as the state government unanimously passed a resolution asking the Centre to confer the country’s highest civilian award Bharat Ratna posthumously on former Prime Minister PV...
Sambasivan Swaminathanas well asCongressleaderPamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Raoand independence activist and political leaderChaudhuri Charan Singh, both of whom were former prime ministers of India—making this a year when the highest number of Bharat Ratna awards have been declared. Swaminathan is ...
Rajiv Gandhi was unseated as prime minister by a coalition of opposition parties. While campaigning to regain power in May 1991, he was assassinated by a suicide bomber associated with theTamil Tigers, a separatist group inSri Lanka. He was succeeded as party leader byP.V. Narasimha Rao, who...
New Delhi) was a leader of theCongress (I) Partyfactionof theIndian National Congress(Congress Party) andprime ministerofIndiafrom 1991 to 1996. Widely recognized for his efforts to liberalize the Indian economy in the early 1990’s, Rao was conferred the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilia...