Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee says 'no' to Padma award

January 25, 2022 22:10

Veteran CPI-M leader and former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Tuesday rejected the Padma Bhushan award.

"I know nothing about this award. No one has told me anything about it. If they have decided to offer Padma Bhushan to me, I refuse to accept it," he said in a statement.

According to CPI-M sources, it was a decision of Bhattacharjee and also of the party.

Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Hindutva poster boy late Kalyan Singh and India's first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat who died in a helicopter crash recently, were awarded the Padma Vibhushan on Tuesday, while veteran Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and Bhattacharjee were among those conferred with the Padma Bhushan.

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