This special programme by SansadTV discusses the Bharat Ratna awards and their significance. Former Prime Minister, Home Minister and two-time Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Chaudhary Charan Singh has become the 12th Bharat Ratna of UP. He is the sixth leader from UP to get Bharat Ratna after becoming PM. Singh is considered as one of the biggest champions of peasants’ rights and has been termed as an ‘organic’ intellectual of the peasantry (Byres, 1988). His birth anniversary, December 23, is celebrated as Kisan Diwas.

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These videos and news coverage are related to the recognition of Charan Singh as a Bharat Ratna on 9 February 2024 by The President of India Draupadi Murmu at a grand ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan. 

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