Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Madan Mohan Malvia to be honoured with Bharat Ratna

According to sources, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to recommend Atal Bihari Vajpayee's name for the Bharat Ratna to President Pranab Mukherjee, today in the afternoon. Prior to this, PM Modi had held a meeting with the top



BJP leaders to decide upon conferring the Bharat Ratna to the former Prime Minister. The meeting was attended by Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah.

Besides Atal Bihari Vajpayee , educationist Madan Mohan Malviya, the founder of the Banaras Hindu University will also be honoured with the Bharat Ratna. The Banaras Hindu University is in PM Modi's constituency, Varanasi. It has been 5 years now since the BJP leaders have been demanding the Bharat Ratna for their veteran leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee.