New Delhi: Former prime minister of India and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee is to be handed over the Bharat Ratna the country’s highest civilian honour on Friday.
President Pranab Mukherjee will personally visit the ailing leader, in a break from tradition, and confer the award on him. President Pranab Mukherjee leaves for former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s residence.
PM Narendra Modi has welcomed President’s gesture of visiting Vajpayee’s residence to confer the Bharat Ratna on him.
Bureau Report
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