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Bharat Ratna to Karpoori Thakur

Karpoori Thakur, a prominent Gandhian socialist leader and former Chief
Minister of Bihar, is set to receive the posthumous honor of the 'Bharat
Ratna.' Serving as the Chief Minister from December 1970 to June 1971
and then again from December 1977 to April 1979, Thakur's contributions
to Bihar's political landscape are being recognized on the eve of his birth
centenary.
The announcement came through a communique from Rashtrapati
Bhawan, stating that the two-time Chief Minister of Bihar, Karpoori
Thakur, who passed away on February 17, 1988, has been posthumously
named for the prestigious Bharat Ratna. This acknowledgment
underscores his significance as the first non-Congress socialist leader to
hold the position of Chief Minister twice, initially for seven months in
December 1970 and later for two years in 1977.

List of Bharat Ratna awardees till date
1. Chakaravarti Rajagopalachari - 1954 26. Morarji Ranchhodji Desai - 1991
2. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan - 1954 27. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad - 1992
3. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman - 1954 28. Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata - 1992
4. Bhagwan Das - 1955 29. Satyajit Ray - 1992
5. Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya - 1955 30. Gulzari Lal Nanda - 1997
6. Jawaharlal Nehru - 1955 31. Aruna Asaf Ali - 1997
7. Govind Ballabh Pant - 1957 32. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam - 1997
8. Dhondo Keshav Karve - 1958 33. M. S. Subbulakshmi - 1998
9. Bidhan Chandra Roy - 1961 34. Chidambaram Subramaniam - 1998
10. Purushottam Das Tandon - 1961 35. Jayaprakash Narayan - 1999
11. Rajendra Prasad - 1962 36. Amartya Sen - 1999
12. Zakir Husain - 1963 37. Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi - 1999
13. Pandurang Vaman Kane -1963 38. Ravi Shankar - 1999
14. Lal Bahadur Shastri - 1966 39. Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar - 2001
15. Indira Gandhi - 1971 40. Ustad Bismillah Khan - 2001
16. Varahagiri Venkata Giri - 1975 41. Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi - 2009
17. Kumaraswamy Kamraj - 1976 42. C. N. R. Rao - 2014
18. Mother Mary Teresa - 1980 43. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar - 2014
19. Vinoba Bhave - 1983 44. Atal Bihari Vajpayee - 2015
20. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan - 1987 45. Madan Mohan Malaviya - 2015
21. Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran - 1988 46. Nanaji Deshmukh - 2019
22. Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar - 1990 47. Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika - 2019
23. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela - 1990 48. Pranab Mukherjee - 2019
24. Rajiv Gandhi - 1991 49. Karpoori Thakur - 2024
25. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel - 1991