Finally, veteran BJP leader Lal Krishan Advani gets recognition for remaining silent, sidelined by his party
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ February 3,2024
Finally, veteran Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) leader Lal Krishan Advani gets recognition for remaining silent, sidelined from his party led BJP government. Modi led BJP government has conferred prestigious Bharat Ratna award to him
“I am very happy to share that Shri LK Advani Ji will be conferred the Bharat Ratna. I also spoke to him and congratulated him on being conferred this honour. One of the most respected statesmen of our times, his contribution to the development of India is monumental. His is a life that started from working at the grassroots to serving the nation as our Deputy Prime Minister. He distinguished himself as our Home Minister and I&B Minister as well. His Parliamentary interventions have always been exemplary, full of rich insights” prime minister Narendra Modi shared this information on his X account.
Lal Krishna Advani, one of the founding fathers of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader who catapulted the party into national reckoning with his Rath Yatra for Ayodhya’s Ram Temple in the early 1990s, has been conferred with the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award.
Within a month of Modi taking charge as India’s prime minister in May 2014, Shah became party president. In August that year, he announced that Advani, former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and former BJP president Murli Manohar Joshi — the three founding fathers of the party in 1980 — would now be part of a newly formed advisory council of elders called the Margdarshak Mandal, effectively announcing their retirement from running the affairs of the party.
As per available information, years later, when Vajpayee was prime minister and wanted the party to take action against Modi for the failure of his Gujarat state government to stop communal riots in 2002, it was Advani who backed Modi’s continuation as the state chief minister at the party’s national executive meeting in Goa.
Finally, veteran BJP leader Lal Krishan Advani gets recognition for remaining silent, sidelined by his party and now the Modi government has conferred India’s highest civilian in the country on him. Till date the award has been granted to 50 individuals so far, with 17 posthumously.
