Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav is among six personalities chosen for this year's Padma Vibhushan.

The others are Zakir Hussain, SM Krishna, oral rehydration solution pioneer Dilip Mahalanabis, Srinivas Varadhan, and Balkrishna Doshi.

Among the nine Padma Bhushan awardees are Vani Jayram, Sudha Murthy, Kumar Mangalam Birla and Suman Kalyanpur.

25 other personalities across various walks of life to receive Padma Shri.