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PV Narasimha Rao: Architect of Economic Reforms, Honored with Bharat Ratna

Acknowledging Former Indian Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao indelible mark on Indian politics and economics, Prime Minister Modi, will honor the economist, tall leader of India with Bharat Ratna posthumously. PM Narendra Modi applauded his unparalleled contributions across various domains. From his early days as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh to his distinguished tenure as a Union Minister and…

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"Pv Narasimha Rao: Honoring the Architect of India's Economic Transformation"

“Pv Narasimha Rao: Honoring the Architect of India’s Economic Transformation” pv Narasimha Rao, architect of India’s economic transformation, honoring, PV Narasimha Rao’s legacy, economic reforms in India the Architect of India’s Economic Transformation A Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award, to be bestowed upon Former prime minister Pv Narasimha Rao and agricultural scientist Dr. Ms…

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"Dil Jeet Liya": RLD Leader As PM Announces Bharat Ratna For Charan Singh

Former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh has been awarded a posthumous Bharat Ratna — India’s highest civilian award — the government said Friday afternoon. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the award on X (formerly Twitter) hailing Mr Singh for his “incomparable contributions”.

“He dedicated his life to the welfare of farmers… whether as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh or Home Minister of the country, and even as MLA, he always gave impetus to nation-building. He stood against the Emergency (and) his dedication to our farmer brothers and sisters is inspiring…” Mr Modi said.

The Bharat Ratna for Chaudhary Charan Singh comes amid reports of a seat-sharing deal between the BJP and the Rashtriya Lok Dal — founded by his son and now led by his grandson, Jayant Chaudhary.

Sources told NDTV the BJP will give the RLD — which has substantial support among Jats and farmers in western Uttar Pradesh, which sends 80 MPs to Parliament’s Lower House, the most of any state — two Lok Sabha seats and one Rajya Sabha seat in return for its support. NDTV was also told the RLD had made awarding a Bharat Ratna for Chaudhary Charan Singh a key condition for any agreement.

Jayant Chaudhary’s party is likely to get the Baghpat and Bijnor seats, and his wife may be made a Rajya Sabha candidate, sources have said. There was also talk of ministerial berths for the RLD.

Sources said the BJP had offered two berths in UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s cabinet, but the RLD also wanted a seat in Prime Minister Modi’s cabinet at the centre.

The RLD only last month confirmed an alliance with Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party, under which it was to contest seven Lok Sabha seats. Faced with possibly losing the RLD’s backing, Akhilesh Yadav yesterday told reporters Mr Chaudhary is a “very well-educated person… (who) understands politics”.

The former UP Chief Minister also said he hoped he would not weaken the struggle against the BJP “for the welfare of farmers and prosperity of the state”. His party was more explicit; General Secretary Shivpal Yadav said “Jayant will not go anywhere”, and accused the BJP of “spreading confusion”.

This morning too Akhilesh Yadav downplayed buzz of the RLD leaving, saying, “There have been no talks. Whatever it is, (it) is being published in newspapers,..am getting information through you.”

Mr Yadav, meanwhile, welcomed the award for Charan Singh but also took a swipe at the BJP, remarking it is only right someone “who spent his life” helping poor farmers get the Bharat Ratna”.

“I want to congratulate all farmers. Chaudhary Charan Singhji fought for farmers all his life… We are happy a farmer leader got Bharat Ratna,” he said in the UP Assembly.

The jab comes as the BJP faces yet another wave of protesting farmers; on Thursday farmers from UP’s Noida and Greater Noida amassed on Delhi’s border to agitate for better land prices.

The sight of farmers penned behind police barricades, with riot control vehicles at the ready, were a replay of images from three years ago — when tens of thousands of farmers and their supporters marched on Delhi to protest the “black farm laws”, triggering a massive image crisis for the BJP.

Chaudhary Charan Singh’s Bharat Ratna is the fifth announced this year; the government has also recognised Congress leader and former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, former Bihar Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur, and the BJP’s LK Advani, as well as world-renowned agronomist MS Swaminathan.

The awards come weeks before a general election and a number of Assembly polls, including one in Andhra Pradesh, which is Mr Rao’s home state and one in which Mr Modi’s BJP is scrambling for grip.

Equally significant, Karpoori Thakur’s award came shortly before Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar — his protege — executed (yet another) flip-flop, dumping the INDIA bloc and realigning with the BJP.

Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) has declared its “appreciation” to the Prime Minister for “honouring the real India”; “We are proud of it…” JDU leader KC Tyagi told news agency ANI.

The Bharat Ratna for Mr Advani — who has labelled himself the “charioteer” who steered the controversial ‘rath yatra’ to Ayodhya in UP — came days after the consecration of the Ram Temple.

The sole non-political Bharat Ratna this year was to MS Swaminathan — the ‘father of India’s Green Revolution’ and who was hailed by the Prime Minister as “a true farmers’ scientist”.

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A Servant of God...

On Christmas eve, 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. For the next 9 years, until it withdrew in 1989, Afghanistan was a daily battlefield between the Afghan mujahideen and the Soviets. The mujahideen cause was supported by a coalition led by the US, UK and other Islamic Gulf countries, which used Pakistan as a military training, espionage and infiltration base for their soldiers. So, the Khyber pass, the de-facto Pakistan-Afghanistan border, was a high activity area for that duration.

However, on 20th January, 1988, both sides decided on a ceasefire for one day, and the border was open for civilians to move between Peshawar in Pakistan and Jalalabad in Afghanistan, to allow them to attend the burial of a 98 year old man. Even visa restrictions were lifted for the day! 200,000 mourners attended his funeral in Jalalabad. His name was Abdul Gaffar Khan. He was also called Badshah Khan or Baccha Khan. And he was revered in Afghanistan as Fakhr-e-Afghan (Pride of Afghans).

Rajiv Gandhi, then Indian prime minister, broke diplomatic protocol and went to Afghanistan to attend to his burial, despite protests from Pakistan's General Zia Ul Haq. Such a privilege was offered to the likes of Heads of State only. And though this 98 year old dead man was not one, he was extremely respected and revered in India too. He was affectionately called the Sarhadi or Frontier Gandhi by Indians. In 1987, he was conferred with the prestigious Bharat Ratna by the Government of India.

And yet, from 1948 till his death in 1988, he was a citizen of Pakistan, and lived his life either in jail or in exile or in house arrest. Infact, he died in Peshawar while under house arrest.

Have you heard of him? If yes, your history is ok. If not, therein lies a tale.

Abdul Gaffar Khan was born as Baccha Khan on 6th February, 1890, in a Pashtun family hailing from Utmanzai, in the Peshawar Valley of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of British India. Right from his early days, he wanted to make a difference and uplift the lot of his fellow Pashtuns. And he had seen enough failed revolts against the British to realise that his path would have to be a path of social activism and reforms, not of armed activism. He focused on education. At the age of 20, he opened a mosque school in his home town of Utmanzai. Five years later, the British banned it. From age 25 to 30, he visited 500 villages in all part of the settled districts of NWFP, propagating education and social reform in Pashtuns. It was in this frenzied activity that he became known as Badshah Khan.

Very soon, Baccha Khan realised that social change was not possible without independence. So he started promoting the idea of a united, independent, secular India. In this, he was deeply influenced by and hence forged a close, spiritual relationship with Gandhiji. Both of them had a deep admiration for each other and worked together for Indian independence.

Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan pioneered the concept of non-violent mass civil disobedience amongst Pashtuns in NWFP. To this end, he founded something called Khudayi Khidmatgar - literally meaning Servants of God. They were commonly also called Red Shirts.

The Khudai Khidmatgar was founded on a belief in the power of Gandhiji's notion of Satyagraha, a form of active non-violence. He used to tell its members:

"I am going to give you such a weapon that the police and the army will not be able to stand against it. It is the weapon of the Prophet, but you are not aware of it. That weapon is patience and righteousness. No power on earth can stand against it."

The organisation recruited over 100,000 members and became legendary in opposing (and dying at the hands of) the British-controlled police and army. Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan was hence called Frontier Gandhi.

Khudai Khidmatgar worked closely with the Indian National Congress, the leading national party fighting for independence, and Bacha Khan became a hugely respected member of the INC too. In 1931 the Congress offered him the presidency of the party, but he refused saying, "I am a simple soldier and Khudai Khidmatgar, and I only want to serve."

Bacha Khan soon became a hero in a society dominated by violence. His liberal views, his unswerving faith in non-violence and obvious bravery in leading from the front led to immense respect.

Like his spiritual guru, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan strongly opposed the idea of partition of India. By 1947, it was becoming clear that partition was inevitable and the British were proposing to give the people of NWFP the choice of joining either India or Pakistan, vide a referendum. So, seven weeks before partition, Bacha Khan, the Khudai Khidmatgars, members of the Provincial Assembly and other tribal chiefs demanded that the Pashtuns be given a choice of creating an independent state of Pashtunistan, comprising all Pashtun territories of British India, instead of being made to join either India or Pakistan. However, this demand was rejected.

The Congress party refused last minute compromises to prevent the partition, like Gandhiji's suggestion to offer the position of Prime Minister to Jinnah. As a result, Bacha Khan and his followers felt a sense of betrayal by both Pakistan and India. Bacha Khan's last words to Gandhiji and his erstwhile allies in the Congress party were: "You have thrown us to the wolves."

After independence, inspite of India's invitation to come and settle down in India, Abdul Gaffar Khan took the oath of allegiance to the new nation of Pakistan on 23 February 1948 at the first session of the Pakistan Constituent Assembly. He pledged full support to the government and attempted to reconcile with the founder of the new state Muhammad Ali Jinnah. However, people jealous of his popularity spread rumours that he wanted to assassinate Jinnah. So the reconciliation never really took off and doubts regarding his allegiance persisted.

Following this, Bacha Khan formed Pakistan's first national opposition party, in 1948 - Pakistan Azad Party. He was placed under house arrest without charge from 1948 till 1954.

In 1958, the government attempted to reconcile with him and offered him a ministry in the government. He refused. He was rearrested and remained so till his illness in 1962. That year, he was named an "Amnesty International Prisoner of the Year". 

In 1973, he was arrested again by Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's government because he described it as "the worst kind of dictatorship".

In 1984, he visited India and participated in the centennial celebrations of the Indian National Congress in 1985.

In 1987, he became the first non-Indian to be awarded Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award.

As P.V. Narasimha Rao noted in an address to mark the centenary of Badshah Khan’s birth, he was of that generation of leaders who did not smile and wave to appease the crowds, but rather scolded them for their lapses, yet was all the more adored and applauded for it. 

This post celebrates a Khudai Khidmatgar - a servant of God - the Frontier Gandhi, Badshah Khan, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan.

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Telangana Assembly Passes Resolution Seeking Bharat Ratna For PV Narasimha Rao Telangana Assembly passed a resolution seeking Bharat Ratna for former PM PV Narasimha Rao Hyderabad: The Telangana Assembly today passed a resolution urging the Centre to confer the country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna on former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao posthumously on the occasion of his ongoing birth centenary celebrations and also install his statue in the Parliament premises.

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Telangana Assembly Passes Resolution Seeking Bharat Ratna For PV Narasimha Rao Telangana Assembly passed a resolution seeking Bharat Ratna for former PM PV Narasimha Rao Hyderabad: The Telangana Assembly today passed a resolution urging the Centre to confer the country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna on former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao posthumously on the occasion of his ongoing birth centenary celebrations and also install his statue in the Parliament premises.

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K Chandrashekhar Rao-led TRS government to demand ‘Bharat Ratna’ for ex-PM PV Narasimha Rao

K Chandrashekhar Rao-led TRS government to demand ‘Bharat Ratna’ for ex-PM PV Narasimha Rao

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Hyderabad: Rubbing salt on beleaguered Congress party in state to whom the former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao belonged, arch rival Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Friday announced that in the forthcoming Legislature sessions, a resolution will be passed demanding ‘Bharat Ratna’ for the departed veteran politician.

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Narasapuram MP seeks Bharat Ratna for former PM P.V. Narasimha Rao

Narasapuram MP seeks Bharat Ratna for former PM P.V. Narasimha Rao

Narasapuram MP K. Raghu Ramakrishna Raju has urged Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy to pass a resolution in the next Cabinet meeting proposing to the Centre to confer Bharat Ratna on former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao.

In a letter to the Chief Minister on Tuesday, Mr. Ramakrishna Raju said.

“A polyglot, scholar, author and an art lover, Narasimha Rao is the architect of economic…

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KCR Flags off Narasimha Rao's Birth Centenary Celebrations, to Seek Bharat Ratna for 'Telangana's Pride'

KCR Flags off Narasimha Rao’s Birth Centenary Celebrations, to Seek Bharat Ratna for ‘Telangana’s Pride’

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File photo of former prime minister PV Narasimha Rao.

The CM said he was a multi-faceted personality, who was not accorded the respect due to him, despite the nation still enjoying the benefits of his reforms. He called for India’s highest civilian honour – Bharat Ratna – to bestowed upon the former PM and chief minister of united Andhra Pradesh.

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तेलंगाना के मुख्‍यमंत्री के चंद्रशेखर राव की मांग- केंद्र सरकार पूर्व PM पीवी नरसिम्हा राव को दे भारत रत्‍न

तेलंगाना के मुख्‍यमंत्री के चंद्रशेखर राव की मांग- केंद्र सरकार पूर्व PM पीवी नरसिम्हा राव को दे भारत रत्‍न

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केसीआर ने पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री पीवी नरसिम्हा राव को भारत रत्‍न देने की मांग उठाई है. केसीआर (KCR) ने कहा कि वह पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री पीवी नरसिम्हा राव (former prime minister PV Narasimha Rao) को मरणोपरांत ‘भारत…

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तेलंगाना के सीएम पूर्व पीएम और दिवंगत कांग्रेसी पीवी नरसिम्हा राव के लिए भारत रत्न चाहते हैं

तेलंगाना के सीएम पूर्व पीएम और दिवंगत कांग्रेसी पीवी नरसिम्हा राव के लिए भारत रत्न चाहते हैं

पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री पीवी नरसिम्हा राव की फाइल फोटो।

नरसिम्हा राव ने कहा कि नरसिम्हा राव ने देश के भाग्य को बेहतर तरीके से बदल दिया और पुरस्कार के हकदार हैं, सीएम के। चंद्रशेखर राव ने कहा कि राज्य मंत्रिमंडल और राज्य विधायिका इस संबंध में एक प्रस्ताव पारित करेंगे।

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तेलंगाना के मुख्यमंत्री के चंद्रशेखर राव ने मंगलवार को कहा कि देश के…

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These 5 People Have Been Awarded Bharat Ratna This Year

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced that former prime ministers PV Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh and agricultural scientist MS Swaminathan will be conferred Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award.

Usually, three Bharat Ratna awards are given in a year. However, this year, the government has named five people for Bharat Ratna, including veteran BJP leader LK Advani and former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur.

PV Narasimha Rao served as the prime minister from June 21, 1991 to May 16, 1996.

He was born in 1921 in Andhra Pradesh’s Karimnagar and studied at Osmania University in Hyderabad, Bombay University, and Nagpur University.

An agriculturist and an advocate, he also served as the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.

These 5 People Have Been Awarded Bharat Ratna This Year PM Modi has announced that Narasimha Rao, Charan Singh and MS Swaminathan will be conferred Bharat Ratna

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced that former prime ministers PV Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh and agricultural scientist MS Swaminathan will be conferred Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award.

Usually, three Bharat Ratna awards are given in a year. However, this year, the government has named five people for Bharat Ratna, including veteran BJP leader LK Advani and former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur.

PV Narasimha Rao PV Narasimha Rao served as the prime minister from June 21, 1991 to May 16, 1996.

He was born in 1921 in Andhra Pradesh’s Karimnagar and studied at Osmania University in Hyderabad, Bombay University, and Nagpur University.

An agriculturist and an advocate, he also served as the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.

He was also the Minister for External Affairs from January 14, 1980, to July 18, 1984, the Minister of Home Affairs from July 1984 to December 1984, and the Minister of Defence from December 1984 to September 1985.

Charan Singh Born in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut in 1902, Charan Singh served as the prime minister from July 28, 1979 to January 14, 1980.

He was first elected to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1937 from Chhaprauli. He represented the constituency in 1946, 1952, 1962 and 1967.

MS Swaminathan Born in 1925, MS Swaminathan is popularly known as the father of the Green Revolution in India.

He obtained a BSc degree in Zoology from the Maharajas College in Thiruvananthapuram, and also in Agricultural Sciences from the Coimbatore Agricultural College.

He also got his MSc degree in Agricultural Sciences (specializing in genetics and plant breeding) from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), and PhD degree from Cambridge University, UK.

LK Advani BJP leader LK Advani had been the BJP national president from 1986–90, 1993–98, and 2004–05.

Capping a parliamentary career of nearly three decades, Mr Advani was first the Home Minister and later, the Deputy Prime Minister in the former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s cabinet from 1999 to 2004.

Karpoori Thakur Born in Bihar’s Samastipur District in 1924, Karpoori Thakur served as the chief minister of the state twice, first from December 1970 to June 1971 and then from December 1977 to April 1979.

He had been a mentor to many current generation leaders of the state, including Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD president Lalu Prasad Yadav.

Bharat Ratna was instituted in 1954 and any person without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex is eligible for these awards.It is awarded in recognition of exceptional service or performance of the highest order in any field of human endeavour.

The recommendations for the award are made by the Prime Minister himself to the President. On conferment of Bharat Ratna, the recipient receives a Sanad (certificate) signed by the President and a medallion.

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Post # 128

Bharat's Ratna...

If Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao were alive today, he would be 99 years old. On 28th June, 2021, he would have turned 100. So this year, the Telangana government is celebrating his birth centenary year. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao led the bandwagon of people demanding Bharat Ratna for PV (as he was fondly known), with BJP leader Subramaniam Swamy supporting this demand. Reports appear that Dr. Manmohan Singh wanted to give him a Bharat Ratna when he was Prime Minister.

Glowing tributes flew from all and sundry, even from Congress, whose party he belonged to, and who conveniently chose to ignore him since 1996, when he stepped down as PM.

No matter how significant PV Narasimha Rao's life was before 1996, it probably must have been hell since then, till 2004, when he died of a heart attack. First of all, he got no credit from his own Congress party for the path-breaking economic reforms he instituted and pulled the country out of the deep shit it had been pushed into by former governments and their policies. Dr. Manmohan Singh, instead, got all the credit.

Next, he was blamed for the party's 1996 electoral defeat, dumped and replaced by Sitaram Kesari. He was excluded from every Congress Working Committee meeting since.

To rub salt on wounds, he was charged with many corruption cases, some of them by his own party colleagues. He supposedly went through a very bad phase financially and had to sell his Banjara Hills house in Hyderabad to pay for his lawyers.

When he died, while undergoing treatment in AIIMS, his family requested that being a former PM, he should be cremated and his remains buried in Delhi. But Sonia Gandhi and her cronies didn't even allow his body to enter the AICC building in Delhi. That's when Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy intervened, flew the body back to Hyderabad, and had it cremated with state honors.

But why was PV, a freedom fighter before Indian independence, a career Congress-man, an Indira Gandhi loyalist even in Emergency days, a State Chief Minister, a cabinet minister with Foreign and Home ministries and an ex-Prime Minister, treated with such disdain in his last few years? And now, why this drama about a Bharat Ratna? Therein lies a tale...

In 1991, PV Narasimha Rao had practically retired from politics. He had by then, seen it all, done it all. Renowned as a scholar - he was fluent in 17 languages - and known to be indecisive - a requisite for survival in the Indian National Congress in those Indira days - he was cooling his heels, when Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated, in the midst of electoral polling.

Congress emerged as the largest party in those elections, but didn't have majority. Sonia didn't want to enter politics just as yet. So PV was persuaded to head a minority government, simply because he was deemed harmless, and asked to lead a nation rocked by the worst economic crisis in its history - the country was bankrupt and had to pledge 68 tonnes of gold in return for aid from IMF, and was grappling with political uncertainty - this was the third government in as many years.

To put it mildly, to survive 5 years - 5 eventful years - and produce the results that he did, was nothing short of miraculous. If a Prime Minister's performance is to be measured by the difference he made to the country while in office, PV Narasimha Rao was probably the most significant Prime Minister India has ever had.

1. Economic reforms:

PV Narasimha Rao was the true father of Indian economic reforms. He brought in a technocrat - Dr. Manmohan Singh as the Finance Minister of India, and backed him 100% to implement necessary reforms. He himself headed the Commerce and Industries ministry to dismantle the socialist policies of the License Raj. His ability to steer unconventional, unpopular reforms through opposition, while heading a minotity government gave him the title Chanakya of Indian politics. Dr. Manmohan Singh says PV was "his friend, philosopher and guide".

2. Nuclear testing:

Today, the world credits Atal Bihari Vajpayee government for India's nuclear testing programme, which culminated in the Pokhran tests of 1998. However, the tests were actually planned in 1995, during PV's term in office. They were dropped under American pressure when the US intelligence got the whiff of it. In 1996, when PV stepped down and Vajpayee became PM, PV met Vajpayee and updated him on the progress of the nuclear programme. Vajpayee said later, "Rao told me that the bomb was ready. I only exploded it." APJ Abdul Kalam described PV Narasimha Rao as a "patriotic statesman who believed that the nation is bigger than the political system". 

3. Foreign policy:

He decided in 1992 to bring into the open India's relations with Israel, which had been kept covertly active for a few years during his tenure as a Foreign Minister, and permitted Israel to open an embassy in New Delhi. Today, Israel is one of India's best friends.

He ordered the intelligence community in 1992 to start a systematic drive to draw the international community's attention to Pakistan's sponsorship of terrorism in India and not to be discouraged by US efforts to undermine the exercise.

Rao launched the Look East foreign policy, which brought India closer to ASEAN. Subsequent governments have pursued this policy as well. Today, Narendra Modi is a strong advocate and practitioner of this policy.

He decided to maintain a distance from the Dalai Lama in order to placate Beijing, and made successful overtures to Tehran. These policies paid rich dividends for India in 1994, when Benazir Bhutto's efforts to have a resolution passed by the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva on the human rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir failed, with opposition by China and Iran.

4. Crisis management:

After the 1993 Bombay blasts, PV personally visited Bombay and after seeing evidence of Pakistani involvement in the blasts, invited the intelligence agencies of the US, UK and other West European countries to examine the facts for themselves.

It was during his term that terrorism in Punjab was finally defeated.

He also directed negotiations to secure the release of Doraiswamy, an Indian Oil executive, from Kashmiri terrorists who kidnapped him, and Liviu Radu, a Romanian diplomat posted in New Delhi in October 1991, who was kidnapped by Sikh terrorists.

He also brought the occupation of the Hazratbal holy shrine in Jammu and Kashmir by terrorists in October 1993 to an end without damage to the shrine.

In 1993, a strong earthquake in Latur, Maharashtra killed nearly 10,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands. PV Narasimha Rao was applauded for using modern technology and resources to organise major relief operations.

Okay. By now, I am convinced he has done enough to have become a high-performance Prime Minister, despite his inaction during the Babri Masjid demolition and the pan-India rioting that happened after that. But why the disdain, especially from within his own party?

Some commentators say that his shabby treatment largely owed to the fact that, in the dusk of his career, he refused to serve as a seat-warmer to the next generation of Gandhis. Once he became the PM, this previously indecisive, harmless, grand old man acted like the buck stopped with him. He stopped visiting Sonia Gandhi regularly, which she resented. In him, the Gandhi family detected a rival power centre that could diminish their centrality to the party and its fortunes.

Some others say that Sonia Gandhi was unhappy with the pace at which Rajiv Gandhi's assassination case was progressing. A few others say that Congress ‘punished’ Rao for his failure to safeguard the Babri Masjid and jeopardise the party’s long-nurtured Muslim vote bank.

Whatever be the real inside story, I feel compelled to reproduce the most glowing tribute to PV Narasimha Rao I read in the past few days.

“Rao is to India what founding fathers Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson are to the United States; Friedrich List to Germany; Hayato Ikeda to Japan; Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Keng Swee and Albert Winsemius to Singapore; and Deng Xiaoping to China.”

In my book, Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao is 100% a Bharat Ratna - a Jewel of India.

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Telangana Assembly Resolution Seeks Bharat Ratna For PV Narasimha Rao

Telangana Assembly Resolution Seeks Bharat Ratna For PV Narasimha Rao

Telangana Assembly passed a resolution seeking Bharat Ratna for former PM PV Narasimha Rao

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The Telangana Assembly today passed a resolution urging the Centre to confer the country’s highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna on former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao posthumously on the occasion of his ongoing birth centenary celebrations and also install his statue in the Parliament…

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K Chandrashekhar Rao-led TRS government to demand ‘Bharat Ratna’ for ex-PM PV Narasimha Rao https://khabaruttarakhandki.in/k-chandrashekhar-rao-led-trs-government-to-demand-bharat-ratna-for-ex-pm-pv-narasimha-rao/?feed_id=36164&_unique_id=5f493966125a3

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GST the ‘Biggest Madness of 21st Century’, Says BJP MP Subramanian Swamy The Rajya Sabhya MP also demanded that former Prime Minister, late PV Narasimha Rao, be given the highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, for the reforms he introduced during his tenure. via Top Politics News- News18.com