Bharat Ratna  

Tension has been simmering between Lamba and her party since December when she was asked to quit the AAP over a state assembly resolution row. Lamba had reportedly said that her party colleagues were angry after she opposed a resolution aimed at withdrawing late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's Bharat Ratna

The Padma awards are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri, the second, third and fourth highest civilian awards of the country respectively, only after Bharat Ratna.
 

This year's Padma Shri awardee Salumarada Thimmakka who is known as the Vriksa Mata has planted 8000 trees. Except for numerous awards and felicitations, she has nothing to live.

Youths from Bengaluru kickstarted a signature campaign to pressurise the Centre to award the Bharat Ratna to Tumakuru's Siddaganga mutt seer, Shivakumara Swamiji. 
 

Soon after the governor Jagdish Mukhi ended his tribute to Bharat Ratna Dr Bhupen Hazarika, the Opposition MLAs raised the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill issue and held up placards demanding to scrap the bill, in front of the governor and Speaker

Pranab Mukherjee, who had been a Man Friday for the Congress, had been ignored and sidelined by the party on numerous occasions. The Congress now can't even criticise this move by the Modi government without blackening its own face.

The chief minister drew Modi's attention to a letter of December 18, 2016 of the state government recommending the award to the former chief minister posthumously.

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