Opposition leaders were conspicuous by their absence at the Bharat Ratna and Padma awards ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday where President Pranab Mukherjee gave away the honours to senior politicians L K Advani, Parkash Singh Badal, sportspersons P V Sindhu, Arunima Singh, academician David Frawley and film director Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
Noted educationist and freedom fighter Madan Mohan Malviya was posthumously conferred the Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian award.
Among the Padma Vibhushan awardees were Advani, Badal and Jagadguru Swami Rambhadracharya. Padma Bhushan was awarded to lawyer Harish Salve and journalists Swapan Dasgupta and Rajat Sharma.
Among the prominent Padma Shri awardees were film director Sanjay Leela Bhansali, writer-lyricist Prasoon Joshi, physician Dr Randeep Guleria, creator of popular cartoon character “Chacha Chaudhary“ Pran Kumar Sharma (posthumously), shuttler P V Sindhu, hockey star Sardara Singh and amputee Everest climber Arunima Sinha.
Last week, the President had conferred Bharat Ratna on former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee at his house in Delhi. The ceremony was attended by PM Narendra Modi, Vice-President Hamid Ansari, Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley , Smriti Irani and Mahesh Sharma and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.
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