Late former Bihar CM Karpoori Thakur to be awarded Bharat Ratna
Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday announced the conferring of the nation’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, on veteran socialist and former chief minister Karpoori Thakur posthumously. The award was last conferred on late president Pranab Mukherjee in 2019. Tuesday’s announcement came on the eve of Thakur’s birth centenary. It is expected to resonate with Bihar’s OBCs, who constitute 27.12% of… Continue reading "Late former Bihar CM Karpoori Thakur to be awarded Bharat Ratna"