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       Bharat  Ratna  for  Narasimha  Rao,  Charan  Singh,

       Swaminathan takes recipient count to 53, max awarded


       in 2024


       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.
       He also served as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh twice, first in 1967 and then in
       1970.
       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.
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